Music Quotes - Page 4

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.

Jules Combarieu

Music touches places beyond our touching.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G.K. Chesterton

Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.

Nothing is better than music.... It has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

Nadia Boulanger

Rests always sound well.

Arnold Schoenberg

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played.

The devil does not stay where music is.

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.

Donald Francis Tovey

The sonatas of Mozart are unique they are too easy for children and too difficult for artists.

I have sat through an Italian opera til for sheer pain and inexplicable anguish I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless fruitless barren attention!

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Classic music is th' kind that we keep thinkin'll turn into a tune.

Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear which remains unsatisfied and even uneasy until it hears something better.

Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear which remains unsatisfied and even uneasy until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed.

John Cage

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Don't play what's there play what's not there.

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

George Bernard Shaw

Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth.

God tells me how he wants the music played - and you get in his way.

Arturo Toscanini

Handel was a man of the world but Bach was a world of a man.

Arnold Stevenson

He was dying all his life.

I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.

I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

Edward Appleton

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.

It is the best of all trades to make songs and the second best to sing them.

Jazz came to America 300 years ago in chains.

Beethoven can write music thank God - but he can do nothing else on earth.

Ludwig van Beethoven

The public doesn't want new music the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

Arthur Honegger

Enjoy the music to understand it!

Toba Beta

Music move God, just as it does lucifer. Something they both have in common.

niyigiraimbabazi Zacharia

I like your opera - I think I will set it to music

Ludwig van Beethoven

I close my eyes and try and shut him out. My fingers don’t want to stay in time. They want to race ahead in fury, plunging into the dense fog of black notes, pulling the music out by its roots, hurling it up out of the piano and into the air.

I was hoping we could just listen to Jimmy Eat World and forget we ever grew up.

Someone was waving a large pink-and-white sign that read, "Don't Worry, Be Happy." I was trying, and so were at least thirty thousand other bodies, with varying degrees of post-Aquarian patience, to see the Who for the first time in a year.

Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name more charming, more precious than another, it is this name. It is woven into the very warp and woof of our psalmody. Many of our hymns begin with it, and scarcely any, that are good for anything, end without it. It is the sum total of all delights. It is the music with which the bells of heaven ring; a song in a word; an ocean for comprehension, although a drop for brevity; a matchless oratorio in two syllables; a gathering up of the hallelujahs of eternity in five letters.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

One day, all those who love in the society of Auld Lang Syne shall meet again. In the New City of the Burning Heart, there, the veil will drop. The arc of the seas shall finally know the skies. Day and night shall end. The clock tower will crumble. Time shall fly to the place of no more. For we were born for meaning. We were born to love. There, we shall all be together with all the lovelies ever known who chose mercy and kindness amidst the forget-me-nots and the countless stars.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

The Runaway Five's obvious influence is The Blues Brothers. During localization, their black and white suits were made more colorful to avoid legal action from Universal Pictures or the film's producers. When I told my wife Aviva about this, she admitted she had never seen The Blues Brothers film. Having grown up on a steady diet of Saturday Night Live-spawned movies, I told her that her innocence here was blasphemous. That night, we marveled together at James Brown's hair.

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means.

Carla H. Krueger

Running, the music flew into him, became the wind that pushed back his hair and the slap of his own feet on the pavement.

You need songs that make you feel. Some make you string, some make you weak. Some build determination, some tear you apart. But you need all of those...Run through the pain.

Good film, television, or music keeps you awake, anxious for the next movement or act, and wanting more when it is finished.

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

François Truffaut

Piracy begins where creativity ends.

Kalyan C. Kankanala

We Live in a World Measured by Piracy because Piracy means Access.

Kalyan C. Kankanala

Piracy of Bollywood; or Bollywood of Piracy, Tough to Say.

Kalyan C. Kankanala

There is a Pirate in every one of us.

Kalyan C. Kankanala

When the world is at peace, when all things are tranquil and all men obey their superiors in all their courses, then music can be perfected. When desires and passions do not turn into wrongful paths, music can be perfected. Perfect music has its cause. It arises from equilibrium. Equilibrium arises from righteousness, and righteousness arises from the meaning of the cosmos. Therefore one can speak about music only with a man who has perceived the meaning of the cosmos.

Am I the only one who measures time using songs? “Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not to long!

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.

Katherine Catmull

At that moment a solitary violin struck up. But the music was not dance music; it was more like a song - a solemn, sweet song. (I know now that it was Beethoven's Romance in F.) I listened, and suddenly it was as if the fog that surrounded me had been penetrated, as if I were being spoken to.

Jennifer Paynter

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.

Jennifer Paynter

Life is like music on a scale, shifting up and down. When your life is over, your song has been written.

Peggy Toney Horton

Life is like music on a scale, moving up and down. When your life is over, you have written your song.

Peggy Toney Horton

Nothing safe is worth the drive.

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