Quotes about music
music rocks bitter
When rock music came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled. Jo Stafford
music strong ears
Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed. John Cage
music practice singing
Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.
music meaningful organization
If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
music resurrection finished
A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.
music piano criticism
Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
music school two
We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for them. Something that doesn't speak or talk like a human being, that doesn't know its definition in the dictionary or its theory in the schools, that expresses itself simply by the fact of its vibrations. People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.
music fighting hands
Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their emancipation. Tomorrow, with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom. At the present stage of revolution, a healthy lawlessness is warranted. Experiment must necessarily be carried on by hitting anything-tin pans, rice bowls, iron pipes-anything we can lay our hands on. Not only hitting, but rubbing, scraping, making sound in every possible way...What we can't do ourselves will be done by machines which we will invent.
music mean rapids
Music is a means of rapid transportation.
music cutting ego
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
music mistake happens
A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.
music past gone
We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
music people trying
The kind of music I'm trying to make is conscious, to make people think and feel and get inspired. Matisyahu
music song guitar
I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come. James Taylor
music play people
I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.
music stars pain
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
music world sound
This World is not Conclusion. A Sequel stands beyond- Invisible, as Music- But positive, as Sound. Emily Dickinson
music people argument
There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing. Elliott Smith
music people stories
The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story. Ella Fitzgerald
music block holiday
When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.
music people together
Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together.
music style singing
Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel.
music horny horns
I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.
music
A music video is so different to doing a movie. Rita Ora
music responsibility simple
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth, Tom Morello
music art school
School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians Edward Albee
music dream mean
Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring in the bustle of our daily lives. I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm. Edgard Varese
music writing done
I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.
music glasses broken
As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey? Eddie Condon
music girl phrases
Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.
music drink flats
They flat their fifths, we drink ours.
music food literature
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. Gilbert K. Chesterton
music song morning
I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else. Hoda Kotb