Quotes about music
music fats mess
If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it. Fats Waller
music nice jazz
This is so nice, it must be illegal.
music new-year taken
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement. Ezra Pound
music moving soul
Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul. Ezra Taft Benson
music party cab-drivers
It's weird - the cab driver is playing very loud dance music and yet it doesn't really feel like a party. Eugene Mirman
music song real
The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL. Jennifer Egan
music language possibility
Music begins where the possibilities of language end. Jean Sibelius
music live-in-the-moment mindfulness
Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat? Goldie Hawn
music spiritual strong
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. Harriet Beecher Stowe
music song oil
As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.
music italian expression
There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.
musical festivals firsts
Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977. Gregory Harrison
music song mean
We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it. Greil Marcus
music song ideas
Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading. Holly Near
music long singing
It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.
musical beloved welcome
The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends. Ignacy Jan Paderewski
music eye vacation
I realize that artists can become fatigued from touring the world over, but if it's your first major tour, you've got to buckle down and do it, said Sami Jarroush, a music blogger for Consequence of Sound. Short of suffering from an actual medical emergency, saying you're going to stop performing so you can take a vacation isn't exactly going to make you look good in the eyes of however many fans you have left. Iggy Azalea
music men order
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. Igor Stravinsky
music ducks effort
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
music jazz-and-life doe
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
music thinking bars
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
musical actors burden
Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor. Iggy Pop
musical stuff plumbing
Basically, I’m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
musician young feels
A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don’t feel great about, and it’ll make you feel so bad it’ll destroy you and kill you.
music-is-life life-is music-is
Music is life, and life is not a business.
music faults singers
All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off. Horace
music neither regard
For my part I regard it as, in itself, neither one or the other... it is the way the music comes, the way it has to come. Roger Sessions
music people similar slightly tight
G.O.O.D. Music is just real tastemakers, man. Kanye's a real tastemaker. One thing that I feel is tight about G.O.O.D. is that a lot of people have their own style, and you can see that. My style is different than Pusha's, it's different than Cudi's. But it's also slightly similar 'cause we have some similar tastes. Big Sean
music children produce
To produce music is also in a sense to produce children. Friedrich Nietzsche
music air voice
Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.
music kenny guitarist
There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell George Benson
music cat jazz
I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.
music play people
People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as you commercialize your sound like Wes Montgomery did, the jazz fans and the critics are down on you!