Quotes about music
music matter kind
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is. Miles Davis
music museums pieces
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
music looks
Always look ahead, but never look back.
music hype white
...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on the new thing so they don't look unhip. White people are especially like that, particularly when a black person is doing something they don't understand...That's what I thought was happening when Ornette hit town.
music play way
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
music silence framework
Music is the framework around the silence.
music play audience
We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.
music men should
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
music guitar self
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
music creating
To keep creating you have to be about change.
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? Milan Kundera
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 memories way
Music is the way our memories sing to us across time. Lance Morrow
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 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 dream thinking
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life. James Joseph Sylvester
music piano brandy
Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.
music wine criticism
In part of Lord Kames' Elements of Criticism, he says that "music improves the relish of a banquet." That I deny,--any more than painting might do. They may both be additional pleasures, as well as conversation is, but are perfectly distinct notices; and cannot, with the least propriety, be said to mix or blend with the repast, as none of them serve to raise the flavor of the wine, the sauce, the meat, or help to quicken appetite. But music and painting both add a spirit to devotion, and elevate the ardor. Laurence Sterne
musical way cry
You know the bank I used to cry all the way to. I bought it. Liberace
music exercise way
Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life. Lester Bowie
music song queens
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs. Gary Cherone
music feelings hearing
The music was more than music - at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous. Louise Erdrich
musician actors
There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor. Henry Rollins
musician brilliant drummer
Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.
musician mathematics mathematician
[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore. Henry Adams
music heart reality
I played the vina until my heart turned into the same instrument. Then I offered this instrument to the Divine Musician, the only muscian existing. Since then I have become His flute, and when He chooses He plays His music. The people give me credit for this music which, in reality, is not due to me, but to the Musician who plays his own instrument. Hazrat Inayat Khan
music song people
I had composed songs, I sang, and played the vina. Practising this music I arrived at a stage where I touched the music of the spheres. Then every soul became a musical note, and all life became music. Inspired by it I spoke to the people, and those who were attracted by my words listened to them instead of listening to my songs.