Quotes about music
music-is goods
Music is the only religion that delivers the goods. Frank Zappa
music drama guitar
The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.
musical radio sound
The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ (fill in the blank), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like.
music art coffee
The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.
music time bills
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
music hands fishing
Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow ties who wish they were fishing.
music air wind
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
music writing air
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
musician rockstars
I'd rather be a musician than a rockstar. George Harrison
music beautiful preaching
The most effective preaching of the gospel is when it is accompanied by beautiful, appropriate music. Harold B. Lee
music rhythm
All God's Chillun got Rhythm. Gus Kahn
music magic important
Wealth and fame can only be so important in the face of musical magic Graham Nash
musical able different
Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.
music thinking race
Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations. Jay-Z
music swings play
They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging. Jay McShann
musician snl outlets
'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet. Miguel
musical taste week
My musical tastes change every week. Kirk Hammett
music life-is music-is
Let your life be your music and let your music be your life. Kevin Eubanks
musician jazz jazz-music
I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life. Kenneth Rexroth
musical roles broadway
Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical. Julia Barr
musician planets stigma
I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions. K'naan
music magic magic-harry-potter
Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here! J. K. Rowling
music people different
In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages. Itzhak Perlman
music different talent
... everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop ..
music symphony mind
The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress. H. L. Mencken
music singing may
The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.
music feelings mirth
The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.
music home musician
Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah
music girl eye
Debussy--A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.
music rain two
Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.
music baseball italian
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
music two kind
There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.
musical one-day knows
I know that one day I would love to do a musical. Guillaume Canet