Quotes about music
music elderly three
Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above. Paul Desmond
music thinking mind
I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.
music father age
I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
music jazz jazz-music
I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.
music jazz week
I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.
music thinking use
... sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing... John Scofield
music player ideas
... one thing people always ask me is 'How do you play outside?' ... I have no idea how to teach that, but when I was discussing this with our bass player Jesse Murphy, he said 'tell them to go cliff diving'... In other words, when you're jamming, you have to take risks if you want to find new sounds...
music ducks jugs
...after using your stuff on a jug band full of instruments, all I can say is Thank You Dr. Duck !... John Sebastian
musician copying knows
In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.
music christian father
... I would urge a young player to listen to Charlie Christians' sense of time ... I'll never forget listening to my father (Bucky Pizzarelli) and Tal Farlow playing Christians' 'Solo Flight' backstage at a gig... that's when it hit me how big of an effect Christian had on jazz guitar. 'Solo Flight' was like the gospel... John Pizzarelli
music feet free-jazz
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. John Philip Sousa
music heart writing
Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
music needs helping
Music helps set a romantic mood. Imagine her surprise when you say, "We don't need a stereo - I have an accordion." Martin Mull
music music-is gift-from-god
Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God. Martin Luther
music skills prodigious
Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.
music men wrath
The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.
music-is
Music is the 5th gospel.
music art skills
Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter, be without the little skill which I possess in the art.
music heart evil
Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.
music giving honor
Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.
music heart sick
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
music wisdom art
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
music hate men
I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
music long singing
As long as we live there is never enough singing.
music beautiful god
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
musical devil doe
The devil does not stay where music is.
music art greatest-treasure
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
music song men
Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.
musical sound syntax
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. Marilyn Hacker
musician depth culmination
A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth. Nick Lowe
musician
Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians. Morton Feldman
music memories ideas
It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't happen. They must be constructed. ... To demonstrate any formal idea in music, whether structure or stricture, is a matter of construction, in which the methodology is the controlling metaphor of the composition... Only by 'unfixing' the elements traditionally used to construct a piece of music could the sounds exist in themselves-not as symbols, or memories which were memories of other music to begin with.
music hard-work ideas
The idea was I'd never amount to anything in music, The theme there was that I was talented, but I wouldn't work hard enough to do anything with it. Mose Allison