Quotes About Music

Songs are built by whimsy, faulty memory, and free association.

I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.

Lily was eager to dance, her body moving involuntarily to the summoning of the music. She was a tawny cat stretching before the panther's grace of Israel, who watched her with a smiling, feline eye.

Music and laughter in the valley called him back, but the summons was weak.

Sing a lust song," Bayard said. "Sing it for me.

I have never heard music like it, nor shall again. It was fast and merry, yet strangely morbid; a blend of wailing pipes and hammered drums.

Georgia, GeorgiaThe whole day through;Just an old sweet songKeeps Georgia on my mind.

Music has been called 'the most noise conveying the least information

The Soviet performers felt that every note had to be strictly controlled. They had excellent training, but the result lacked freshness and poetry." That word, "freedom," was secretly on the lips of many. In that sense, Van's message became unintentionally political.

Alkan even wrote a piece for four feet, called Bombardo-Carillon, in which the player's legs are likely to get entangled during performance. (When Swiss-American pianist Rudolph Ganz was asked to perform Bombardo-Carillon with a female pianist, he declined on the grounds that he didn't know her well enough.)

Oscar is our Liszt and Bill Evans is our Chopin,

Logan battered to the end of 'Started Out With Nothin', drove in silence for a minute, then launched into 'Living Is a Problem Because Everything Dies'. Making up half of the words as he went along.

He turned the music up loud. So what if it would deafen him? It made him happy. Like it had so many times before.

Dylan's Blood on The Tracks.

A man's screech should exceed his rasp, or what's a violin for?

It is like breathing to us, and to ignore math in this story would be akin to listening to Frank Zappa without ever having taken hallucinogens, an incomplete experience.

I invented the phrase: "Music not to be listened to." That was my commercial phrase with which I sold Muzak. It was the first music deliberately created to which people were not supposed to listen. It was a new kind of background music. That's why my mother, who was a fine musician, held it in contempt. She wouldn't have it in her apartment. Anybody who knows anything about music holds Muzak in contempt.

The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days.

There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.

He visited Robert Schumann's grave to lay a wreath and he became so indebted by the purchase of a piano that he could not afford the journey home to his mother and sister at Christmas. Observing that his money always ran out fast, 'probably because it was so round', he sent in his place a volume of eight of his musical compositions...

Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars music's got these bars and measures you know.

The earth cannot move without music. The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops the earth will stop and everything upon it will die.

I have said before that the music is the words and the words are the music It is all there for you to understand if you can and for you to feel, regardless.