Quotes about music
music middlemarch interrupted
It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. George Eliot
music sorrow transformed
When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love. Franz Schubert
musical tradition rooted
Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith. Franz Liszt
music taken style
Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.
music art feelings
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
music missing too-late
Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.
music cat play
When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat. Fred Allen
music two three
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. Frank Capra
music art mad
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. George Jean Nathan
music clothes shelter
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
musical acting elements
For whatever reason, acting took the front seat but all of the projects that I've been doing seem to have some sort of musical element to them. Chrissie Fit
music fun artist
If my extensive collection of all 53 'Now That's What I Call Music' compilations is any indication, I am both qualified and honored to join Ludacris in hosting this amazing show that spotlights the best music and artists of the year, i had so much fun hosting the Billboard Music Awards last year and I can't wait to be back! Chrissy Teigen
musical kind
I come from a musical kind of family. Chris O'Dowd
music goodbye country
"Go and Say Goodbye" by the Buffalo Springfield stands as one of the first examples of what would later be branded country rock Chris Hillman
music art form
the one universal form of art is music. Faith Baldwin
music beautiful nature
I like the beauty of physics, nature is beautiful, it is my second soul to music. Fabiola Gianotti
music heart thinking
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain. George Szell
music giving orchestra
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.
music creativity firsts
Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place. George Shearing
music tired years
I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties.
music dog people
When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.
musical ears noses
The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee. Jean Cocteau
music feelings mysterious
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
music-is
All music is the blues. All of it. George Carlin
music thinking somewhere-else
Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free.
music baby pain
You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass. Frank Sinatra
music rocks expression
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
music believe honest
Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.
music jazz dies
I'm gonna live till I die.
music ideas voice
The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin-not sounding like them, but "playing" the voice like those instrumentalists.
music prayer night
Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
music law echoes
Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.
music-is precise
It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.... Felix Mendelssohn