Quotes about music
music
All music comes from God. Johnny Cash
music exercise dark
The bar is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable-and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a clientele that doesn't like to talk. Luis Bunuel
music writing thank-god
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. Ludwig van Beethoven
music storm tone
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
music wrestling vans
Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods.
music wine piano
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
music fashion art
What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the changes of time, and - more's the pity- the fashions of time, only that which is good and true will endure like a rock and no wanton hand will ever venture to defile it. Then, let every man do that which is right, strive with all his might towards the goal which can never be obtained, develop to the last breath the gifts with which the gracious Creator has endowed him, and never cease to learn. For life is short, art eternal.
music wisdom philosophy
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
music art secret
Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.
music passion play
To play without passion is inexcusable!
music heart eye
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
music peace world
Music can change the world.
music knowledge world
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
music thinking giving
Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?
music philosophy thinking
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.
music spiritual wisdom
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
music people mechanic
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played. Ludwig Wittgenstein
music tails littles
Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails Louis MacNeice
music law jazz
All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws. John Coltrane
music wish firsts
Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.
music thinking glasses
Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
music eye play
The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
music wish firsts
Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad.
music scales right-now
I'm into scales right now.
music people desire
When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.
music school true-power
...That is one of the main causes of this arrogance: the idea of power. Then you lose your true power which is to be part of all, and the only way you can be part of all is to understand it. And when you don't understand, you have to go humbly to it. You don't go to school and say, 'I know what you're going to teach me'.
music communication emotional
I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing . . . the emotional reaction is all that matters as long as there's some feeling of communication, it isn't necessary that it be understood.
music men knowing
Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician.
music feelings matter
All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.
music jazz-and-life source
All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
music spiritual expression
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
music play sincere
You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.
music moving jazz
I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once.