Quotes about music
music guitar play
A Strat was a thing of wonder .. when I was 14 or 15, the Shadows were a big influence, and they had the first Strats that came to England. I like to play all kinds of guitars, but I wasn't getting the sound I really wanted until I got a Stratocaster Mark Knopfler
music tunes millions
There are a million good tunes. Marian McPartland
music art way
In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible. Marguerite Yourcenar
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
music rocks age
I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me! Little Richard
music conversation duty
If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. Oscar Wilde
music song land
I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some common bond makes the people of all lands take to Negro songs as their own. Paul Robeson
music play different
Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse. Patrick Rothfuss
musician poet
A poet is a musician who can't sing.
music rich
I like them old and rich. Lily Allen
music people sound
People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music. Lillian Hellman
music inspiration judgment
The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
music silence sound
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. Leopold Stokowski