Quotes about music
music beautiful affair
The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful. Plato
music hands soul
Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.
music republic art-education
Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.
music destiny rivers
The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music. Paula Cole
music thank-god emotion
Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.
music play guy
... We borrowed it all from Coltrane. I started encouraging everybody in the band to listen to John Coltrane - 'Check it out, see what these guys do.' They take one chord, the tonic chord, and just play all over it. 'We can do that too!' I wanted to make our music something really amazing - I wanted it to be jaw-dropping and turn on a dime and do all of those things that I knew music could do, and nobody told us we couldn't do it. I shouldn't say 'I,' though - Jerry Garcia was behind it the whole way. Phil Lesh
music grateful different
... Everything we (the Grateful Dead) ever did was a demonstration of the value of cross-fertilization, It was unconscious at first, but when we started looking at each other, we had all these different influences... Bobby Weir used to call it electric Dixieland.
music thinking guitar
So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to. Lee Ann Womack
music country thinking
I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.
music trying different
But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.
music country texas
And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.
music morning laughter
There was passion, there was laughter The first morning after I just couldn't get my feet to touch the ground Everytime we were together We talked about forever I was certain it was Heaven We had found.
music memories way
Music is the way our memories sing to us across time. Lance Morrow
musical serial-killer killers
How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in. Johnny Depp
music rock-n-roll inspirational-music
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
music giving permission
Mozart's music gives us permission to live. John Updike
music simple variation
Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme. John Szarkowski
music dream thinking
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life. James Joseph Sylvester
music piano brandy
Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.
music thinking use
... sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing... John Scofield
music player ideas
... one thing people always ask me is 'How do you play outside?' ... I have no idea how to teach that, but when I was discussing this with our bass player Jesse Murphy, he said 'tell them to go cliff diving'... In other words, when you're jamming, you have to take risks if you want to find new sounds...
music ducks jugs
...after using your stuff on a jug band full of instruments, all I can say is Thank You Dr. Duck !... John Sebastian
musician copying knows
In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.
music christian father
... I would urge a young player to listen to Charlie Christians' sense of time ... I'll never forget listening to my father (Bucky Pizzarelli) and Tal Farlow playing Christians' 'Solo Flight' backstage at a gig... that's when it hit me how big of an effect Christian had on jazz guitar. 'Solo Flight' was like the gospel... John Pizzarelli
music feet free-jazz
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. John Philip Sousa
music heart writing
Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
music needs helping
Music helps set a romantic mood. Imagine her surprise when you say, "We don't need a stereo - I have an accordion." Martin Mull
music music-is gift-from-god
Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God. Martin Luther
music skills prodigious
Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.
music men wrath
The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.
music-is
Music is the 5th gospel.
music art skills
Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter, be without the little skill which I possess in the art.
music heart evil
Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.