After leaving the Commodores, Lionel Richie became one of the most successful male solo artists of the '80s, eclipsed during his 1981-1987 heyday only by Michael Jackson and Prince.
The long playing (nicknamed 'LP', a 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove) record is a vinyl record format, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry. Apart from minor refinements and the addition of stereophonic sound, it has remained the standard format for vinyl albums.
QuotaBillsThe only truth is music. - Jack Kerouac
Music is my higher power. - Oliver James
Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick Delius
Without music, life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
In rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur. - Belinda Carlisle
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. - Pat Conroy
My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Classical music is music written by famous dead foreigners. - Arlene Heath
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. - W H Auden
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. - Decca Recording Company
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. - Kin Hubbard
Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference. - Herbie Hancock
You can run out of garlic, but you can't really run out of music. - Jace Wayland
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine
The true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can. - Rita Mae Brown
People are like music. Some speak the truth, and others are just noise. - Bill Murray
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. - Frank Zappa
The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. - Dave Barry
Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you. - Charles Hart
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve
I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous. - Barry Manilow
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. - Thomas Carlyle
The greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. - Truman Capote
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. - E Y Harburg
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran
Boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey
Whatever music sounds like, I am glad to say that it does not sound in the smallest degree like German. - Oscar Wilde
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato
A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart. - Paul McCartney
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. - Martin Luther
The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? - David Sarnoff
Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down. - Dimebag Darrell
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all. - Steven Tyler