Quotes about music
musical trying generations
I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience. Jerry Herman
music rocks too-late
It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now ... Jerry Garcia
music grateful names
... Grateful Dead - that's it !! ... nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn't like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, 'Yeah, that's great.' It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It's just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don't like it.
music fun thinking
... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style. The result, I think, is pretty interesting ... we don't expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top. As long as we can play, we'll play, regardless of what it's for, who it's for or anything. It's fun for us - that's the important thing.
music emotional trying
I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional.
music reality counter-culture
It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
music song real
The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL. Jennifer Egan
music language possibility
Music begins where the possibilities of language end. Jean Sibelius
music live-in-the-moment mindfulness
Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat? Goldie Hawn
music spiritual strong
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. Harriet Beecher Stowe
music song oil
As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.
music italian expression
There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.
musical festivals firsts
Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977. Gregory Harrison
music song mean
We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it. Greil Marcus
music song ideas
Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading. Holly Near
music long singing
It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.
musical beloved welcome
The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends. Ignacy Jan Paderewski
music eye vacation
I realize that artists can become fatigued from touring the world over, but if it's your first major tour, you've got to buckle down and do it, said Sami Jarroush, a music blogger for Consequence of Sound. Short of suffering from an actual medical emergency, saying you're going to stop performing so you can take a vacation isn't exactly going to make you look good in the eyes of however many fans you have left. Iggy Azalea
music men order
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. Igor Stravinsky
music ducks effort
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
music jazz-and-life doe
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
music thinking bars
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
musical actors burden
Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor. Iggy Pop
musical stuff plumbing
Basically, I’m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
musician young feels
A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don’t feel great about, and it’ll make you feel so bad it’ll destroy you and kill you.
music faults singers
All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off. Horace
music pleasure arithmetic
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. Gottfried Leibniz
music math science
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
musical way process
We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater. Harold Prince
musical age golden
I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
music names berlin
I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500. James Brown
music sweat play
Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.
music needs able
Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop Jakob Dylan