Quotes about music
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 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 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 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 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. Jorma Kaukonen
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
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.
musical sacred equipment
I've never considered musical equipment very sacred. Kurt Cobain
music want complaining
I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.
music fake-people jazz
The worst crime is faking it.
music truth challenges
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
music heart roots
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth. Khalil Gibran
music stupid heart
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
music oneness soul
Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.
music spiritual secret
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
music song sadness
Songs are as sad as the listener. Jonathan Safran Foer
music love-is
Love is friendship set to music. Jackson Pollock
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
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.