Quotes about music
music zoos band
Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo. Hoagy Carmichael
music-is cease
Where words cease, there music begins. Heinrich Heine
music inspirational-music music-and-life
Where words leave off, music begins. Heinrich Heine
music careers people
Obviously I want my music on the radio and I want my record to do well, but I also have a totally different career, so a lot of people who are in music are just in music and can dedicate all their time to that and I can't do that, so I really want to have both things and I'm just trying to figure out how. Hilary Duff
music understanding inspire
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. Henry Ward Beecher
music flower rose
What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be! Henry Ward Beecher
music men thinking
Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack. Henry Ward Beecher
music dust piano
This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter. Henry Ward Beecher
music men knows
Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out. Henry Ward Beecher
music miracle
The most stupendous miracle in all music. Johann Sebastian Bach
music soul honor
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. Johann Sebastian Bach
music play keys
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself. Johann Sebastian Bach
music soul finals
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. Johann Sebastian Bach
music artist miracle
Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do. Johannes Brahms
music rivers water
In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume. Johannes Brahms
music strikes familiar
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
music badass bad-ass
I call architecture frozen music. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
music writing may
I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised. Joe Zawinul
music rocks bitter
When rock music came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled. Jo Stafford
music memories regret
The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them. Madame de Stael
music gay pensive
All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive. Madame de Stael
music past recalls
nothing recalls the past like music ... Madame de Stael
music recollection revive
Music revives the recollections it would appease. Madame de Stael
music winter mind
Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. Haruki Murakami
music kings hands
I have all these computers and keyboards and synthesizers, and I rattle away. For instance, with The Lion King I wrote over four hours worth of tunes, and they were really pretty -but totally meaningless. So in the end I came up with material I liked. We worked on The Lion King for four years, but I wasn't toying until the last three-and-a-half weeks properly. On Crimson Tide, on the other hand, I just went in and within seconds I knew what I wanted. Hans Zimmer
music morning adventure
What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure Hans Zimmer
music country inspiration
Country music is three chords and the truth. Harlan Howard
musical looks bother
Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already. Gustav Mahler
musician composing
It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a musician's nature can hardly be expressed in words. Gustav Mahler
musical classical-music found
What is best in music is not to be found in the notes. Gustav Mahler