Quotes with music

  • Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
  • Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.
  • There's only two kinds of music I don't like... Country and Western.
  • As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any praise or feedback.
  • I'm not a rich person financially, but I am in mind and soul. I have so much energy and strength, and I can do a lot of things that make me, and I think my fans, quite happy. When everything's gone, music alone shall live on.
  • As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.
  • Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
  • Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
  • As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
  • No one had written a good long life of Schubert. He had lived long in music and short in life.
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  • Frank Zappa Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Walter Lippmann It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Zoltan Kodaly Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.
    Zoltan Kodaly
    Hungarian composer (1882 - 1967)
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  • Caroline Shaw 'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another.
    Caroline Shaw
    American violinist, singer and composer (1982 - )
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  • Benjamin Booker As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type of music. I want to take these blues melodies over aggressive guitars. I heard the sound I wanted to make. I knew what I wanted to do. It wasn't ever there before.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
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  • Bill Monroe Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.
    Bill Monroe
     
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  • Al Jourgensen Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.
    Al Jourgensen
    Cuban-American singer-songwriter, musician (1958 - )
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  • N. Coward Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
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  • Gerald Early I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music and baseball.
    Gerald Early
    American essayist and American (1952 - )
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  • Voltaire It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • James Weldon Johnson It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
    James Weldon Johnson
     
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  • Burning Spear Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Joseph Addison Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Joseph Addison Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Barbara Kruger There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Boz Scaggs This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level.
    Boz Scaggs
    American singer, songwriter, and guitarist (1944 - )
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  • Bill Laswell What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.
    Bill Laswell
    American bass guitarist (1955 - )
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  • Brad Delson 'Music for Relief' has played a vital role in helping get aid to people who most need it. We are deeply honored to participate in what will likely be our biggest event to date.
    Brad Delson
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Ben Lovett A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs off a music scene that has become just a little bit stale.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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