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Music Quotes
"I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument."
15
"It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it."
15
"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
15
"Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine."
15
"When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again."
15
"So it doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring."
15
"When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely."
15
"Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever."
15
"There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking."
14
"In its own unique and indefinable manner, music indirectly communicates the joys of life along with the pains and terrors overwhelming humanity. The universal language of music quantities the human experience, its range of variation encapsulates the scale of humankind's exuberance for living as well as expresses our apprehension of suffering and death. Because music articulates the quintessence of life and yokes a myriad of human events into an expressible format, music is a critical act."
14
"It was the quartets of Beethoven (numbers 12,13,14, and 15) which over fifty years, created and expanded the the audience of listeners to the quartets of Beethoven, thus achieving, as all masterpieces do, progress if not in the quality of artists, at least in the company of minds, which is largely composed these days of what was missing when the work appeared: people capable of liking it."
14
"I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media."
14
"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."
14
"All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written."
14
"Music, I think, he makes me feel like music."
14
"He had never got so much back for himself from any pupil as he did from Miss Kronborg. From the first she had stimulated him; something in her personality invariably affected him. Now that he was feeling his way toward her voice, he found her more interesting than ever before. She lifted the tedium of the winter for him, gave him curious fancies and reveries. Musically, she was sympathetic to him. Why this was true, he never asked himself. He had learned that one must take where and when one can the mysterious mental irritant that rouses one's imagination; that it is not to be had by order. She often wearied him, but she never bored him."
14
"Music is the fastest motivator in the world."
14
"When I wrote those two songs, I couldn't have been any closer to the bottom."
14
"Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies."
14
"Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection."
14
"They all believed in him because of the authenticity of his musical talent and his faith in it."
14
"Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time."
13
"There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony."
13
"Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere."
13
"As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less."
13
"Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter - to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water."
13
"Music has the ability to express in the upbeat every brilliant aspect of existence, while on the downbeat convey the anguish that a human being experiences when apprehending the fleeting nature of time, and the mysterious torture of living and dying. Music stands alone in its ability to communicate the symbols and phases of life, both being and nonbeing."
13
"I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music."
13
"People can enjoy music everywhere. Therefore, music is more than a giftbecause it represents a unique form of human freedom."
13
"It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive."
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