Quotes About Music

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.

To regard the economic process of a society as the essence of the bio-social process of the human animal's society is the same as equating the piece of ground and the house with the rearing of children, or of equating hygiene and work with dancing and music. But it was precisely this purely economic view of life (a view that Lenin had strongly opposed even in his time) that forced the Soviet Union to regress to an authoritarian form.

Tu es grand quand tu trouves ton plaisir dans le ciel bleu, dans le chevreuil, dans la rosée, dans la musique, dans la danse, quand tu admires tes enfants qui grandissent, la beauté du corps de ta femme ou de ton mari; quand tu te rends au planétarium pour étudier les astres, quand tu lis à la bibliothèque ce que d'autres hommes et femmes ont écrit sur la vie.

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

Dont speak of tomorrow.Let the music speak to us tonight,in a happier language than ours.

Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.

Here we encounter a new aptitude of System 1. An underlying scale of intensity allows matching across diverse dimensions. If crimes were colors, murder would be a deeper shade of red than theft. If crimes were expressed as music, mass murder would be played fortissimo while accumulating unpaid parking tickets would be a faint pianissimo.

Most people look to music to validate their tastes, rather than simply react to what they hear.

Giardinaggio, prole (i bambini di Marianne e i nostri figli adolescenti), fricassee di funghi, musica, non si finirebbe mai di elencare le piccole gioie che alimentano l'istinto di vivere.

La nostra voce è la musica che fa il vento quando ci attraversa il corpo (be', quando non esce da sotto).

Dalla tua espressione tragicomalinconica, dice Grégoire, dev'essere Mahler. Ma guarda un po', adesso indovini il tipo di musica dall'espressione di un volto? Certo, quando ascolti quel polacco, Penderecki, sembri un cubo di Rubik abbandonato.

My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.

Tariq said, "You never answered my question." "Which question was that?" "Do you like fado music?" "I suppose it's an acquired taste." He smiled and added, "Like Lisbon itself. For some reason it reminds me of home." "Fado is a music devoted to suffering and pain. That's why it reminds you of home." "I suppose you're right.

Schubert's String Quartet in D Minor

Gottfried Leibniz wrote that music's pleasure consisted of "unconscious counting" or an "arithmetical exercise of which we are unaware.

He was a man with a tin-ear present who dreamed of a rock-opera future.

Naomi took down the instructions, confirmed her cell phone number, and put the bag in the plastic bin headed to the lab. As Hailey left, Naomi turned the music back on. "Who is that?" Hailey asked. "Velvet Underground," Naomi said. "Cool, huh?" "Very," Hailey agreed, though she wasn't sure if it was cool or awful.

Beautiful music plays, but not everyone with ears can hear it.

For he – and this is truly what Central European writers do – drags around a terrible burden of linguistic and musical melodies; he hauls a piano and a dead horse behind him, along with everything that has been played on that piano and everything that the horse once bore into battle and to defeat – marble statues and bronze bearded busts, pictures in baroque frames, words and melodies that nobody can understand outside that language.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.