Music Quotes
sometimes music isn't just a bunch of sounds and lyrics, sometimes it's more than that: a time machine...
Life is like music on a scale, shifting up and down. When your life is over, your song has been written.
Life is like music on a scale, moving up and down. When your life is over, you have written your song.
My favourite songs from literally all my favourite albums are usually always track 10. Coincidence? Conspiracy? Illuminati? Time will tell.
Maybe the reason why all the doors are closed so you could open one that leads you to the perfect road.
The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some day, and for a minute you feel a happy pain, but you don't know why. Bird felt like that.
I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it persisted - 'I may not be able to spell, but just you listen to this.
I've tried to tell the truth. But I would say that, wouldn't I? In any case it has to be my truth. What other truth could I possibly know?
Good film, television, or music keeps you awake, anxious for the next movement or act, and wanting more when it is finished.
Running, the music flew into him, became the wind that pushed back his hair and the slap of his own feet on the pavement.
When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means.
I was hoping we could just listen to Jimmy Eat World and forget we ever grew up.
Ricky was a young boy, he had a heart of stone./Tequila in his heartbeat, his veins burned gasoline./18 and life you got it.
Music move God, just as it does lucifer. Something they both have in common.
The public doesn't want new music the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever I could not sing an air to save my life but I have the intensest delight in music and can detect good from bad.
Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear which remains unsatisfied and even uneasy until it hears something better.
I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.
Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon between spirit and matter.
Nothing is better than music.... It has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
The Sonata is an essentially dramatic art form combining the emotional range in vivid presentation of a full-size stage drama with the terseness of a short story.
The sonatas of Mozart are unique they are too easy for children and too difficult for artists.
Throughout my career nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at I feel as bad as I did the very first time.
When people hear good music it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.
One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time.
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra not choreography to the audience.
For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire the second half trimming it.