Roger Bannister Quotes

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

I never finish a show without singing 'She's Gone.'

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

Essentially I'm a melody person in a rhythm age, and that's what Broadway is really about, the songs.

Music is something that's so powerful and means so much to me.

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

Music is your guide.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.

A great song is a great song.

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

The great love of my life is music.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

To me, a song is a song when you can sit in a room and just sing it from end to end.

Music is the silence between the notes.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

Music, not sex, got me aroused.

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.

My mum especially listens to music in a way that is incredibly feelings-based. There's virtually no snobbery about what sounds are in it, she just wants to hear a song and that is quite refreshing.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.