Quotes about music
music dream thinking
How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am? Lou Reed
music kissing world
When I die, bury me on my stomach and let the world kiss my ass. LL Cool J
music jazz take-a-chance
The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances. Madeleine Peyroux
music singing faces
Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face. John Fletcher
musician wanted
I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be. John Fogerty
musician made music-is
Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other. John Fogerty
music journey guitar
Playing guitar is a never-finished journey. John Fogerty
music art creative
Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time. John Fowles
music country art
As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color. What freedom alone can bring is the liberation of the human mind and a spirit which finds its greatest flowering in the free society. I see of little more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist. John F. Kennedy
music art civilization
The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization. John F. Kennedy
musical auditions stressful
Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful. Jonathan Groff
music-industry feels industry
The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute. Jonathan Davis
music
A music video is so different to doing a movie. Rita Ora
music responsibility simple
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth, Tom Morello
music art school
School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians Edward Albee
musical alphabet poor
Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Edgard Varese
music dream mean
Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring in the bustle of our daily lives. I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm. Edgard Varese
music writing done
I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment. Edgard Varese
musical whole
I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical. Edie Brickell
music glasses broken
As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey? Eddie Condon
music girl phrases
Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'. Eddie Condon
music drink flats
They flat their fifths, we drink ours. Eddie Condon
music food literature
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. Gilbert K. Chesterton
music song morning
I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else. Hoda Kotb
music art connections
Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts. Hermann von Helmholtz
music attitude destiny
The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity. Hermann Hesse
music thinking moral
I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable. Hermann Hesse
music night poetry
And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
music headstone exquisite
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
music men heaven
O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
music real men
The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind. John Jay Chapman
music listening littles
A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere. John Hendricks
music trying spirit
I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in. John Frusciante