Billy Rose Quotes

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

Music is the only thing that I trust.

I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else.

A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.

I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend-without a song.' So I keep singing a song.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

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

All that really moves me is music.

I'm attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.

I usually have a song in my head. I'm thinking music, I'm thinking lyrics. Music helps me get to those moments. The moments between the moments.

There's a song", I say. "There's always a song", he says.

Music brings life to my soul.

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

I really believe in melody.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

Music is as integral to me as my own DNA. My life has become a continual soundtrack, with music underscoring the most powerful and even the most banal moments of my life.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

I can't imagine a world without music.

The River,' to me, meant 43 songs.

Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.

My favorite song to perform is 'Love of my Life.'

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