Quotes About Music

doxology can help stabilize theology. It is very difficult to sing bad theology.

People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come in and hijack that part of your brain that's always thinking. A good book or song kidnaps your interior voice and does all the driving. With the artist in charge you're free for a little while to leave your body and be someone else.

I'd sooner have died than admit that the most valuable thing I owned was a fairly extensive collection of German industrial music dance mix EP records stored for even further embarrassment under a box of crumbling Christmas tree ornaments in a Portland, Oregon basement. So I told him I owned nothing of any value.

Sarah was nine years old that summer. Her passions were reading and music. Sarah devoured books, sometimes two a day. Lea had to check her every night to make sure she turned out her light, or she would read to all hours and drag herself down to breakfast with dark circles under her eyes.

My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains.

Memories Before and After the Sound of Music An Autobiography

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.

The melody is the soul of all poetry and prose.

Et ce ne sont pas seulement les bouches qui chantent, mais les mains, mais les pieds, mais les fesses, mais les sexes, et la créature tout entière qui se liquéfie en sons, voix et rythme.

I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

God I am Grateful today, for all things that cash can't buy! What would Life be without eyes to see! Wonder, without music, how Happy could I be? Thank you Lord, are words I say, every moment on this Grateful day.

Karaoke is the great equalizer.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Without returning... O my feelings In this gathering darkness of spring, And against my koto My tangled, tangled hair.

With my head crammed full of art, literature, theater, music and film knowledge, I continued to wander, vainly looking for a place to make use of it.

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

Tip-Toe Thru' the Tulips with Me

The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.

These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.