Quotes About Contrast

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

This is the saddest, most depressing music I've ever heard. It makes me so happy.

Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.

I'd say the differences are more interesting than the similarities at this point. Certainly no one would ever mistake my music for Steve's [ Reich].

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.

Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool.

I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa.

Debussy--A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.

The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs, the music is actually pretty peaceful and lulling.