Quotes about music
music mind praise
Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture. Joseph Addison
music heaven
All of heaven we have below.
music wisdom heaven
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
music-is profession
Music isn't only a profession. Jose Carreras
music surfing balance
...I liken feedback to the effect of when you go surfing; you can get pummeled by a wave, but if you balance the forces right, you can have a dandy ride ... that's pretty much what feedback is... Jorma Kaukonen
music fun progress
I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that I did. Well, it wasn't work; it was fun actually.
music needs use
With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is that it might irritate him somewhat.
music player style
I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at least not in any recognizable way. It's not my turf but I have plenty of respect for that style of playing.
music guitar age
... just because a guitar is old doesn't make it good... I've seen guitars that were old but weren't as good as the reissue ... for me, it's not the age that makes it happen, it's the quality of the instrument...
music fun blessing
The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving.
music eye over-you
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears. Jose Bergamin
music opposites doe
Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.
music car lovely
When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say "What lovely music!
music important ravel
Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel. Jonny Greenwood
music joy sorrow
I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow. Joni Mitchell
music home men
Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.
music song writing
You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.
musical sacred equipment
I've never considered musical equipment very sacred. Kurt Cobain
music want complaining
I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.
music fake-people jazz
The worst crime is faking it.
music truth challenges
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
music heart roots
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth. Khalil Gibran
music stupid heart
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
music oneness soul
Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.
music spiritual secret
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
music song sadness
Songs are as sad as the listener. Jonathan Safran Foer
music encouragement art
Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement. Napoleon Bonaparte
music singing sound
gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again. Lynda Barry
musical film musical-theater
It's quite clear if you look at the actors in film right now, some of them came from theater but they didn't come from musical theater. There's still a bit of a stigma attached to it I would say. Luke Evans
music listening intention
Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music. Luciano Berio
musical wish persons
I always wish life could be a musical. One person just says 5, 6, 7, 8. Lucas Grabeel
music expression perfect
Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion. Luciano Pavarotti
music balance music-is
Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance. Louis Armstrong