Music Quotes
Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.
The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.
Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look upon it as a privilege to be inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business.
If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy and increase consumer demand, there must be hope for music.
I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
Not to deny that it is a thinking people's music, but when I listen to music if I ever catch myself thinking, I'm in trouble--I know something is wrong.
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.
My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.
Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar.
The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.
Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.
Believe me when I say that some of the most amazing music in history was made on equipment that's not as good as what you own right now.
Check out the albums, ... Check out the live performances. That's the reality of it all. Music is such an energizing thing.
It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.
Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.
Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.
Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.
Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.
There’s nothing like music to teach you that eventually if you work hard enough, it does get better. You see the results.
We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it.
Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.
When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?
