Quotes about music
music art husband
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. Ralph Waldo Emerson
music song thinking
But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper. Reba McEntire
music song hurt
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
music fashion cinema
Music has a role, fashion has a role, cinema has a role, intellectuals have a role, parliamentarians, politicians, diplomats -- all of it.
music thinking guitar
... Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful... Ritchie Blackmore
musical quests enjoyed
Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.
music new-york new-day
I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable. Tupac Shakur
music world fans
I'm a fan of music from all over the world. Michael Winterbottom
musician tunes
Feed the musician, and he's out of tune. George Crabbe
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
music should
Music should be your escape. Missy Elliot
music
Music tells no truths. Philip James Bailey
music-is colorful
Music is all of a sudden much more colorful. Pharrell Williams
music thinking music-is
I think all music is a gift from God.
musical serial-killer killers
How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in. Johnny Depp
music rock-n-roll inspirational-music
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
music giving permission
Mozart's music gives us permission to live. John Updike
music simple variation
Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme. John Szarkowski
music singing singers
When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true. Montserrat Caballe
musician opinion
If you are a musician, in my opinion there is no greater experience than to play for one's master. It is the highest calling. Milarepa
music addiction jazz
Music is an addiction. Miles Davis
music way hearing
It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.
musician spirit great-music
When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.
music play horns
You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played
music nice confused
I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.
musical carter ought
Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.
musical taught jazz
Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
music mistake europe
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.
music museums glasses
I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
musical festivals next
You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.
music three way
I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.