Music Quotes

Music is only sound expressing certain patterns so to what extent is that sound architecture and to what extent theatre?

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Music is your own experience your thoughts your wisdom. If you don't live it it won't come out of your horn.

The good composer is slowly discovered the bad composer is slowly found out.

Oboe - an ill woodwind that nobody blows good.

Music first and last should sound well should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.

I am tired before the concert not afterward.

Music the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have below.

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah that is where the art resides!

Mozart is the human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

I write as a sow piddles.

I am an arrogant and impatient listener but in the case of a few composers a very few when I hear a work I do not like I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune.

She was an aging singer who had to take every note above 'A' with her eyebrows.

Going to the opera like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.

If a literary man puts together two words about music one of them will be wrong.

Music is given to us specifically to make order of things to move from an anarchic individualistic state to a regulated perfectly concious one which alone insures vitality and durability.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Why should the devil have all the good tunes?

The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Orpheus never liked words. He had his music. He would get a funny look on his face and I would say what are you thinking about and he would always be thinking about music.

Writing is my oxygen. Music is my carbon dioxide.

Broken pencils still write beautiful songs.

He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.

Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock.

I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.

The nature of the music business is such that it's better to have a few chances for some things to be successful than just one, and that's kind of been my attitude all along.

I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women.

For me, music is all about emotion and attitude.

I want people to know that I'm not just 'Chillin' It.' I'm a real person. There's heartbreak and trials, and I hope I put that in my music.

Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.

The truth is, I think country music... there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the way a lot of country boys and girls are, hopefully there's just a lot of respect.

A love song must respect the canons of music beauty, entering the fibers of those who are listening. It must make them dream and pleasantly introduce them to the universe of love.

Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

My goal in my career is to inspire people, is to get my music out there and have people enjoy it, and have people think of me as an inspirational artist.

Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God.

Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.

Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it's kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.

You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself.

My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It's been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.

I was always told that music isn't a 'realistic' path to take, and like a normal human being, I doubted myself over and over because I was afraid of failure.

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

Just sharing music with each other - that's cool. It's the selling that becomes the problem.

When you're playing music through the streets of London at 2 o'clock in the morning, there's something so cool and magical about that. It takes you to a special place very quickly.

I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.