Quotes about music
music creating
To keep creating you have to be about change. Miles Davis
music guitar idiocy
The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal. Milan Kundera
music two piano
No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?
music music-is consolation
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation. Marcel Proust
music art moving
Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. Joseph Addison
music religious wings
Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
music art moving
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love; 40 With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. When Orpheus strikes the trembling lyre The streams stand still, the stones admire; The listening savages advance, The world and lamb around him trip The bears in aukward measures leap, And tigers mingle in the dance The moving woods attended as he played And Rhodope was left without a shade.
music nonsense wells
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
music art plato
Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.
music religious art
Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.
music religious indulge-in
Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.
music mind praise
Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture.
music heaven
All of heaven we have below.
music wisdom heaven
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
music-is profession
Music isn't only a profession. Jose Carreras
music surfing balance
...I liken feedback to the effect of when you go surfing; you can get pummeled by a wave, but if you balance the forces right, you can have a dandy ride ... that's pretty much what feedback is... Jorma Kaukonen
music fun progress
I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that I did. Well, it wasn't work; it was fun actually.
music needs use
With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is that it might irritate him somewhat.
music player style
I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at least not in any recognizable way. It's not my turf but I have plenty of respect for that style of playing.
music guitar age
... just because a guitar is old doesn't make it good... I've seen guitars that were old but weren't as good as the reissue ... for me, it's not the age that makes it happen, it's the quality of the instrument...
music fun blessing
The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving.
music eye over-you
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears. Jose Bergamin
music opposites doe
Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.
music car lovely
When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say "What lovely music!
music important ravel
Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel. Jonny Greenwood
musician wanted
I always knew I wanted to be a musician. Jonny Lang
music joy sorrow
I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow. Joni Mitchell
music home men
Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.
music song writing
You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.
music art doe
The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
music moving blow
To blow is not to play on the flute; you must move the fingers. [Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]
music doe novelty
Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.
music badass bad-ass
I call architecture frozen music.