Quotes about music
music song heart
The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed. Alfred Lord Tennyson
music singing pipe
I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.
music cities piano
The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.
music hymns swim
Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims. Aldous Huxley
music art composer
Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
music research satisfaction
Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow Albert Einstein
music complaining strain
In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain. Alexander Pope
music church doctrine
As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
music dance light
Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
music warrior fire
By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
music pain grief
Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
music church vowels
As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
musical development frank
My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died. Alex Trebek
music player yield
...And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield... Don McLean
music people american-pie
People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.
music levels come-up
I expect the audience to come up to my level. Don Ellis
music thinking artist
To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.
music musician martyr
Oh, I'm a martyr to music. Dylan Thomas
music peace military
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. Dwight D. Eisenhower
music tired people
Comedy is like music; it builds on itself. Once someone comes up with a theory or a different way of doing things, people start to mimic it on some level. That's why you go back to the guys you loved in the 80s... and it just seems tired now, because it was all foundation. Doug Stanhope
music growing-up average
In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times. Dudley Moore
music heart way
Music is the surest way of reaching someone else's heart.
music should-have done
Critics get a little carried away with what someone should have done, rather than what he did. Duke Ellington
music missing playing-jazz
Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
music adversity sky
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
music play murder
It's like an act of murder-you play with intent to commit something.
music thinking should-have
Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
music fate want
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
music play mistress
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
music children mind
Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs" searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.
music feel-good jazz-and-life
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
music mean doe
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
music mean swings
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.