Quotes About Music

The creaking was every song I'd ever heard about war and battle; the horses clopping along, the drumbeat. All those stories must have ended this same way

The soulless blood-rush of synthesized climax over a repetitive backbeat made disco the perfect music by which to score with a stranger.

Os grandes líderes do comércio, da indústria e das finanças e os grandes artistas, músicos, poetas e escritores se tornaram grandes porque desenvolveram a capacidade da imaginação criativa.

To know silence perfectly is to know music.

What of the Athenian last year on whose bosom a committee hung a medal to say to the world here is a champion heavyweight poet? He stood on a two-masted schooner and flung his medal far out on the sea bosom. "And why not? Has anybody ever given the ocean a medal? Who of the poets equals the music of the sea? And where is a symbol of the people unless it is the sea?

complexity doesn't exist for its own sake, or to prove a theoretical point, but because it provides the right sound at the right time to express very human emotions.

Only by analyzing the melody to locate the tonic can a key signature be identified as major or minor.

Al-most-blue...con due pause in mezzo, due respiri sospesi da cui si capisce, si sente che sta tenendo gli occhi chiusi. Per questo mi piace Almost blue. Perchè è una canzone che si canta ad occhi chiusi.

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music

Every paragraph, every sentence, seemed written in a musical key. The narrative drew her eyes through a cadence of timbres and colors that sketched a theater of shadows in her mind. She read without pause for two hours, relishing every sentence and dreading the moment she would reach the end.

I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.

A letra da canção é o que julgamos entender, mas o que nos faz acreditar nela é sempre a música.

Clara mochte schlecht spielen, nicht im Takt, und bei der Hälfte der Noten danebengreifen, für mich aber klang ihre Serenade wundervoll, und sie mit einem angedeuteten Lächeln und zur Seite geneigten Kopf aufrecht vor den Tasten sitzen zu sehen erschien mit wir eine Vision des Himmels.

My father pretended to be reading his letters. He was a dreadful actor. 'Since when have you liked Wagner?

La letra de la canción es lo que creemos entender, pero lo que nos hace creerla o no es la música.

We think we understand a songs lyrics, but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music.

Clara played badly, with no sense of rhythm and mistaking half the notes, but to me her serenade was liquid heaven.

I let the remainder of the morning drift by between the alchemy of the music and the perfume of books

Everyday I became more convinced that good literature has little or nothing to do with trivial fancies such as "inspiration" or "having something to tell" and more with the engineering of language, with the architecture of narrative , with the painting of texture, with the timrbres and colors of the staging. With the cinematography of words, and the music that can be produced by an orchestra of ideas

Words, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the head, warm, beating, frantic, winged; music and blood.

Rap. Songs of rage and hate blended with screaming instruments.

As Nubia played the flute, it was if her finger tips caressed each one of those she loved, those whom she would never see again

As the music took wings and began to soar, a movement caught Flavia's eye