Quotes About Music

Diplomacy without sagacity and manoeuvring is like music without instruments.

Diplomacy without sagacity and prudent manoeuvring is like music without instruments.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

There is geometry in the humming of the string.

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

Your music can never be more or less than you are as a human being.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

Led Zep played with light and shade, ear-splitting noise and echoing quiet. They could do it all.

I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.

I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.

Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the sonic universe! And the musicians: anyone and anything that sounds!

Because, as I have told you so many times, I have no words to make you understand," said the captain. It' s all the beauty and serenity and nobility you have ever experienced on earth. It's all your grandest and most generous feelings, and the finest sunsets and greatest music- and then you' re only on the fringe of understanding.

I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.

When he played, though—when he played he could liquefy your soul. He walked on water—well, his fingers did—liquid supple and fluid smooth, running, dripping, flowing.

Malcolm Lowry Late of the Bowery His prose was flowery And often glowery He lived, nightly, and drank, daily, And died playing the ukulele

The movement of life has to rest in its own music.

The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.

The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song

I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.