Quotes about music
music missing opinion
Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion. Ned Rorem
music speech needs
If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.
musical influential-person creation
So far as musical pedagogy is concerned - And by extension of musical creation - Nadia Boulanger is the most influential person who ever lived
musical broadway involved
What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.' Nathan Lane
music notes
[On the music of Richard Strauss:] Too many notes! Nadia Boulanger
music women boston
[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.
music practice should
You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone.
music understanding solitude
In music everything is prolonged, everything is edified, and when the enchantment has ceased, we are still bathed in its clarity; solitude is accompanied by a new hope between pity for ourselves - which makes us more indulgent and more understanding - and the certitude of finding something again, that which lives for ever in music.
music laughter artist
The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways. ... The artist is obliged to keep his laughter and tears to himself. If they want to emerge, in spite of himself, then he must hide them or unleash them in someone else.
music found composer
Music was not invented by the composer, but found.
music ideas substance
Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest substance of the idea, since it has the privilege of expressing all, whilst excluding nothing.
music mistake serious
As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.
music notes forgiven
False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.
music done limits
Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to what was, what will be, what music has created for us.
musician
I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.
music west african-music
African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West. Miriam Makeba
music song determination
There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.
music dance running
If you can walk, you can run. Publilius Syrus
music years skills
Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head. Kip Winger
music band bigger
I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.
music trying movement
You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket) Oscar Levant
music squares romance
Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become. Margaret Atwood
music song odd
Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person.
musician wonderful things-to-do
It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do. Marcus Miller
music football art
Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in. Kevin McCall
music guitar interesting
It's interesting to see how acoustic guitars are emerging as a primary instrument once again ... reminds me very much of what Jim Messina and I were doing back then. You can't get too far away from an acoustic guitar Kenny Loggins
music moving heart
The Spirit speaks directly to our hearts through music. That's why music has always had such power to move people into positive action.
music-business
The music business is strictly business. Kenny Rogers
music talking singing
I'm much more comfortable singing than talking.
music-is
Music is what I am, everything else is what I do.
music blessing lessons
I'm thankful For the blessing And the lessons that I've learned with you By my side Kelly Clarkson
music lying men
I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come. Mark Twain
music men virginia
We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.