Quotes About Music

To me playing a violin requires passion, and passion requires a good back.

Most of us become great artists for me I cannot hear music only have memories of sounds. Feeling vibrations, I'm able to read music.

My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.

Pianist Clifford Curzon tells about his celebrated teacher Artur Schnabel cautioning his piano students: " 'Play nothing before you hear it'—or, 'First hear, then play.' He knew that only certainty of conception could produce clarity of presentation." And it is so in mining a text for its meaning and message.

The day of the experimental session was spent as follows: 8:30. Arrival at session room 9:00. Psychedelic material taken (200 milligrams of mescaline), equivalent to 100 micrograms of LSDb 9:00–12:00. Music played while subjects relaxed with eyes closed 12:00–1:00. Psychological testing 1:00–5:00. Participants worked on problems 5:00–6:00. Discussion of experience; review of solutions

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

Music alone is a vital force, an instrument for rescuing the world from its moral and spiritual decay.

Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.

So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.

Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band.

The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason?

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. from "Araby

Why don't you steal the pattern out of Kenton's '23 Degrees North, 82 Degrees West'?" the trombonist, an alumnus of Stan Kenton's big band, said.

You can't explain what it is about the sound of Sinatra's voice," Feinstein says. "I mean, you can try, and you can get very poetic in describing it. But there is something there that is transcendent, that simply exists in his instrument. He developed it, he honed it, he understood it himself, he knew what he could do, and he used it to his best advantage. That was something that people responded to.

Music without passion or soul is just a collection of notes, right?

There is a certain way of climbing inside of time that gives a man ownership of the world and everything in it. Like, for instance, when you hear a jukebox it plays only what you need to hear.

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

Music is the space between the notes as much as the notes themselves; it's defined as much by silence as by sound.

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