Quotes about music
music regret thinking
I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there's nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless. Marianne Faithfull
music drinking games
Is the circle of fifths a drinking game? Mike Burns
music love-is singing
Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music. Ned Rorem
music missing opinion
Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.
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
musical would-be theater
We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater. Neil Tennant
music mistake made
I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive. Neil Young
music country ideas
... I have no idea who's steering, and I don't really care .. I just keep going whatever the inclination is ... there are threads that are continuous and hold everything together and a major thread is country music ...
music country song
... my songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the way they were recorded is the old Nashville way ... they sound as country or more country than a lot of things that are on country radio...
music running taken
The music world has taken a huge dump, so maybe there's a connection. So if Apple decided to do this, maybe they do their own version ... whatever they want to do it's a home run for music. Unless they screw it up, and try to put something on it so that they can own it - I'm calling it out, proprietary formats are not a good thing.
music fun laughing
It's gotta be fun, if it's not fun it's not worth doing. Music is about having a good time feeling your soul, whether it makes you laugh or it makes you cry, just so long as you feel as much as you can. That's the mission of Pono.
music freedom choices
Music lovers always want to hear the best. It's about freedom of choice, we supply the music.
music rocks rock-n-roll
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
music eye people
Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.
music-is live-music
Live music is better.
music music-is no-point
The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
music-love
You can't love music without loving the Beatles. Nick Cannon