Music Quotes - Page 40

Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.

Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing your lover, being broke, men called Daddy, women who dress like men, working, praying for rain. Jail and trains. Whiskey and morphine. She tells stories between verses and everyone in the place shouts out how true it all is.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.

I turned to the clarinets. They were a resourceful lot.

Jennifer Echols

Well, I sort of don’t trust anybody who doesn’t like Led Zeppelin.

music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts.

T.S Eliot

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

I've found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.

You have to turn it up so that your chest shakes and the drums get in between your ribs like a heartbeat and the bass goes up your spine and fizzles your brain and all you can do is dance or spin in a circle or just scream along because you know that however this music makes you feel, it’s exactly right.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

This sick strange darkness comes creeping on so haunting everytimeAnd as I stared I counted the webs from all the spiderscatching things and eating their insidesLike indecision to call youAnd hear your voice of treasonWill you come home and stop this pain tonightstop this pain tonight

Blink-182

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they’re your kids.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester

Charlotte Brontë

There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

Southern girls are God's gift to the entire male population. There is absolutely no woman finer than one raised below the mason-dixon line and once you go southern may the good Lord help you - you never go back

I see the world, it makes me puke,But then I look at you and know,that somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me.

Morrissey

I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the ’90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.

The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.

The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself.

Lindsey Stirling

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.

Morrissey

It's so shameful of me: I like you.

Morrissey

Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste.

Morrissey

I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full.And I just can't explain...so I won't even try to.

Morrissey

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?

Morrissey

In every heart there is a room,A sanctuary safe and strong,To heal the wounds from lovers past,Until a new one comes along

Music is not a fucking soda. It is not a fucking insurance rate. It is not a fucking T-shirt. It is the only real religion that is worth devoting your soul to. It is the last remnant of the primal scream, the funeral dirge, and the wedding march. It is the light that keeps me out of the shadows, and it is the reason my immortal soul is not in dire straits.

I look at him for a moment. Words are a weapon stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart. I come from a people of song and dance. I don’t need him to tell me the power of words. But I smile nonetheless.

The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand, enjoy music they can improve by making up filthy new lyrics.

What's my age again?

Blink-182

The best music... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Bruce Springsteen

All I want is someone I can't resist ...I will know all I need to know by the way that I got kissed

Aerosmith

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

Michael Jackson

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

Louis Armstrong

What you see is kinda what you get with me. I'm a very real person, or I hope to be, anyway. I don't have nothing to hide

you dont know what you got till its gone

[S]he leans into this guy and rocks her head like I’m making this music for her, when if I could, I would take it all away and give her as much silence as she’s given me pain.

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do (...) Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?

There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe with a hole. It is a voice that has lived and lives, with sorrow and shame, ecstasy and bliss, joy and pain, redemption and damnation. It is a voice with love and without love. I like the voice, and though I can't talk to it, I like the way it talks to me. It says it is all the same, Young Man. Take it and let it be.

She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had still always been there inside her, waiting to be woken. It grew from the core of mystery that gives a secret its special delight, religion its awe. It demanded to be accepted by simple faith, not dissected or questioned, and at the same time, it begged to be doubted and probed.

Charles de Lint

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Don't be afraid to be weakDon't be too proud to be strongJust look into your heart my friendThat will be the return to yourselfThe return to innocenceIf you want, then start to laughIf you must, then start to cryBe yourself don't hideJust believe in destinyDon't care what people sayJust follow your own wayDon't give up and miss the chanceTo return to innocenceThat's not the beginning of the endThat's the return to yourselfThe return to innocenceDon't care what people sayJust follow your own wayDon't give up and miss the chanceto return to innocence

Enigma

Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.

I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, ‘You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the part I give most willingly

George Harrison

A person who...does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of

The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.

The heart has a heart of its own.

Morrissey

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words

I am hated for loving.I am haunted for wanting.

Morrissey

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