Music Quotes

Carrying someone else’s weight is only going to weigh down on you and add stress, frustration, and pain. Choose who you work with and play with wisely.

Real? What is real? And tell me, what importance does reality have anyway? Did you learn from the experience? Now, that is important!

It was made clear to me that Music is related to everything, especially nature and language, but in order to speak it naturally, I had to first make myself a part of it.

And by the way, if I always tell you the truth, you might start to believe me.

Only Getting the A and Z with out the B through Y, leaves you SOL.

Some people have lives

Dream Song:The heavens Go with me.

Hope is a strange commodity. It is an opiate. We swear we have relinquished it and, lo, here comes a day when, all unannounced, our enslavement to it returns.

How dare you say it's nothing to me?Baby, you're the only light I ever saw.

Perception is never purely in the present - it has to draw on experience of the past.

So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world, interweaving their words with our own to ward off the heat of the day.

He held her hand and shook his head. "They're inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape?

.. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..

In any case the friendships of later life, in contrast wih those negotiated before thirty, are apt to be burdened with reservations, constraints, inhibitions.

What a shabby lot of highbrows have turned out tonight, " he said, when he saw us. "It makes me ashamed to be one.

It's politics . . . It makes everybody stupid. When you grow up, you'll know what I mean.

Barnby always dismissed the idea of intelligence in a woman as no more than a characteristic to be endured.

Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head.

Dream Song:In the heavens A noise, Like the rustling of the trees.

We ache with the yearningthat turns half into wholeand offer no excusesfor the beauty of our souls.

Most great artists define a new and unique region of hell.

In my box of sound bites there are no jackhammers, no snowmobiles, no Jet Skis, no children wailing. Music but no Muzak.It's my box. Put what you want in yours.

In the break-up of a marriage the world inclines to take the side of the partner with most vitality, rather than the one apparently least to blame.

There is nothing stable in the world

Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of senselessness. I am tired of the music that my feelings sing, the dream music.

Music is not take it or leave it

Carolina beach music, " Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.

We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead.

Big fat hairy monkey, hands a couple of octaves wide?

Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it." -attrib Frank Zappa

We're deaf men working as musicians

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Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe, and also a hovel so simple and private that none of us can plumb its deepest secrets.

Like music, said Peg. Even when it was over, it kept living inside you.

It was a real party of swells.

The undistracted experience of affects of just about any sort, when free of practical consequences, appears to have intrinsic appeal for many of us.

Theory is a six-letter dirty word to most musicians, but hey, musicians love dirty words, right? And just like all the other dirty words, theory is easy to learn and fun to use!

What we seem to perceive influences what we feel, and what we feel influences what we say we perceive

[L]anguage cannot match music's subtlety and preciseness of expression.

You might say that the universe plays the blues.

The online music magazine Pitchfork once wrote that I would collaborate with anyone for a bag of Doritos.

Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that sometimes the music givesbthem hope and inspiration. It doesn't just placate and pacify.

The gentle pulsing and flickering of stars and nebulae made a kind of music, a sweet easy mesh of whispered tones and sighing harmonies that held him in its force like the earth [holding] the moon.

I know about dance, like the creationist knows about science, and typically treat it with a similar contempt

Repetition draws us into music, and repetition draws music into us.

There are things which money cannot buy

Opportunity always knocks

Embrace courageously the challenging beauty of life.

There was still no likelihood that we could make a living from dance. We were doing it because we loved it... We realized how full we felt

Size doesn't define your beauty and intelligence. Appearance doesn't measure the goodness of your heart and the hidden joy of your soul.