Quotes about music
music treasure guarding
LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure. Ambrose Bierce
musician actors talent
I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor. Anthony Hopkins
music song writing
I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer. Alicia Witt
music mother piano
When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed. Alicia Keys
music play piano
But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
music thinking peaceful
From out the peaceful hollow of its throat / such music pours as I am unaware / how to devise. I did not think these things. / It is the reed that sings. Alice Smith
music people needs
Only dead people need loud music, you know. Alice Walker
music sleep hours
a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.
music song judging
Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're an entirely different kettle of fish-to use a seamanly metaphor-to Domick's. Don't you judge your songs against his standard! More people have already listened to your melodies and liked them than will ever hear Domick's, much less like them. Anne McCaffrey
music running hard-work
Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was why her parents couldn't appreciate her music-it wouldn't appear to be hard work to them. Menolly shook her hands, letting them flap from her wrists. They ached and trembled from the constricted movements and tension of an hour of intensive playing. No, her parents would never understand that playing musical instruments could be as hard work as sailing or fishing.
music silence gains
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
music heart singing
Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food. Anne Lamott
music guitar study
I would love to study guitar or trumpet. Amy Winehouse
music heart literature
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. Alphonse de Lamartine
music musical saw seven
Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical - I like the music. I saw 'Mamma Mia;' I saw 'Les Miserables;' I saw 'Phantom of the Opera' like six, seven times. Rafael Nadal
music complaining strain
In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain. Alexander Pope
music church doctrine
As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
music dance light
Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
music warrior fire
By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
music pain grief
Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
music church vowels
As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
musical development frank
My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died. Alex Trebek
music growing-up average
In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times. Dudley Moore
music heart way
Music is the surest way of reaching someone else's heart.
music should-have done
Critics get a little carried away with what someone should have done, rather than what he did. Duke Ellington
musician problem made
The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.
music missing playing-jazz
Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
music adversity sky
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
music play murder
It's like an act of murder-you play with intent to commit something.
music thinking should-have
Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
music fate want
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
music play mistress
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
music children mind
Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs" searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.