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Quotes About Depth

Music fathoms the sky.
~ Charles Baudelaire
What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.
~ Gustav Mahler
If all you have is music, then you don't have music
~ Wayne Shorter
If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.
~ Joshua Redman
Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.
~ Sergei Prokofiev
These, too, seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
~ Felix Mendelssohn
You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
For me, music begins where words end.
~ Jean Sibelius
Listen deeper than the music before you put it in the box.
~ Tyler, The Creator
Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.
~ Ilya Ehrenburg
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
~ T. S. Eliot
I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.
~ Steve Earle
Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.
~ Eric Clapton
I get way down in the music / Down inside the music.
~ Eloise Greenfield
I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.
~ Brother Ali
I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.
~ Conor Oberst
To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.
~ Joni Mitchell
Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.
~ Kamasi Washington
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
~ E. B. White
There is a pinciple in the heart of music which has yet to be discovered.
~ John Herschel
Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.
~ Michael Tilson Thomas
My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.
~ Anna Kamienska
I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.
~ John Mellencamp
I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.
~ Kate Bush