Music Quotes
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.
Sunny, happy with the music, no money. I'm thinking you're on holiday. Sipping yellow lemonade.
Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.
We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.
PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo."
Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
There's a lot of ideology about "free", that we can have free services, free content, it's one of the reasons why the music industry which I defend has been decimated.
We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.
That was part of the whole original concept. We were thinking, it's off-season, let's do a really fun, local-oriented event, raise money for good causes and bring some music to the valley.
I love what I do because I get to talk to the people who change the game: the influencers, visionaries who make things happen in music and culture. That's inspiring to me.
Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.
One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it.
For me, every sound has its own minute form - is composed of small flashing rhythms, shifting tones, has momentum, comes, vanishes, lives out its own structure.
I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.
Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.
The collective love for music and poetry and just the brotherhood of sound. And it's still kind of flowing through me and I attribute that to the team.
Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out.
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.
Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.
Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.
With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.
It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.
I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to be simplified in most cases to colour and force lines, just as music has done with sound.
My father, good or bad, mistakes or no, had a direct line from his heart to the music to the people, to the audience. He played with logic and his own inner truth.
Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.
My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.
We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.
I wanna make music that I feel proud of when I'm onstage, that I feel like I put my all into.
If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.
When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.
My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.
When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.
I have done lots of music projects in my life and some of them I am more proud of than others.
Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess.
I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.
