Quotes about music
music-is
Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic. Charles Spurgeon
music beach boys
The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group. Dennis Wilson
music new-york school
My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York. Debra Wilson
musical want burlap
A musical is the same as a burlap sack, I would not want to be in either Demetri Martin
music player house
James Brown opened at least six of our House of Blues clubs. He always delivered, but he demanded the respect of an emperor. But, come on, he's James Brown ! ... I got to play on stage with him. Did he ever fine me ? (Brown was known to fine players for flubbing notes or steps) - I would have loved to have been fined by James Brown ! Dan Aykroyd
music-business
I love the music business very much. Connie Smith
musician platforms youtube
YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although its harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it. Conor Maynard
musical training identity
I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established. Ashleigh Brilliant
music demand want
The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead. Arthur Honegger
music-is geometry
Music is geometry in time. Arthur Honegger
music music-is
Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.
music teacher mirrors
We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, and your personal history. At the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters. Bruce Springsteen
music people
Most people know my music but will never read my books. Chico Buarque
music art drama
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created. Bruce Beresford
music ducks drs
... we use Dr.Ducks Ax Wax religiously on all Danelectros before they ever leave the factory... Brian Martin
music play guitar
I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast. Brian May
musical subversion canon
The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics. Brian Ferneyhough
musical doe wonderful-person
My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores! Brett Somers
music girl two
There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. Boris Vian
music rocks felt
I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome. Aretha Franklin
music people brown
...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso Aretha Franklin
music fads
R&B is not a fad; it's the truth. Aretha Franklin
music mean use
Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that. Aretha Franklin
musical identity transformation
And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window. Archie Shepp
music country suicidal
In America, for a brief time, people who followed John Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort. Archie Shepp
musical kind painting
The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point. Ben Nicholson
music violin used
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music. Barbara Sher
music mom mother
Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the final episode. I think I had a breakthrough.' And I would believe-for a few months-that it was true. That she was back to stay. Maybe it was like having a rock star mother who was always on the road. Were there Benatar children? Did they sit around and wonder if their mom's Hell is for Children tour was going to be her last tour? Augusten Burroughs
music balls
We're here to have a ball. Art Blakey
music intelligent ears
It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz. Art Blakey
music names type
A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music. Art Blakey
music dust jazz-and-life
Jazz washes away the dust of every day life. Art Blakey
music new-york thinking
I don't think I'm ready for New York. Art Tatum