Quotes About Music

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned.

The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

You rarely meet a wino with perfect pitch.

Put a glide in your stride, a dip in yo' hip and come on up to the mothership

Ain't nothin' but a party!

Occasionally, too, and quite unbidden, it would warble little impromptu inward melodies of my own composition, which often seemed to me extremely pretty, old-fashioned, and quaint; but one is not a fair judge of one's own productions, especially during the heat of inspiration; and I had not the means of recording them, as I had never learned the musical notes. What the world has lost! Now whose this small voice was I did not find out till many years later, for it was not mine!

The hardened soul melts at the tones of the singer, at the unspeakable pathos of the sounds that cannot lie; one almost believes—one believes at least in the belief of others. At last one understands, and is purged of intolerance and cynical contempt, and would kneel with the rest, in sheer human sympathy!

I am never without some tune running in my head—never for a moment; not that I am always aware of it; existence would be insupportable if I were. What part of my brain sings it, or rather in what part of my brain it sings itself, I cannot imagine—probably in some useless corner full of cobwebs and lumber that is fit for nothing else.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

True music… must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans. My time is today.

The rhythms of American popular music are more or less brittle; they should be made to snap, and at times to crackle. The more sharply the music is played, the more effective it sounds.

Can you play guitar too?" Leon asked. "Because if you can, I'll go kill myself right now." "No, but I can sing a little," Mad Rogan said. "God damn it!" Leon punched the table. "Calm yourself," Bern told him.

About fifteen minutes into the drive, Conlan gave up singing the sad song of his people and fell asleep.

The Soviets were also happy to use American art forms to advance their cause in the United States. By the 1940s, American communists had fully embraced and significantly co-opted folk music. The American Communist Party was essentially an agency of the Soviet government. "Folk singers had become a ceremonial part of Communist Party meetings.

Anything was better than music, for music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.

Tutto era meglio della musica, perché solo la musica abolisce le differenze di lingua o di abitudini fra due esseri e tocca fibre sensibilissime.

The regiment was passing beneath Lucile's windows. The soldiers were singing; they had excellent voices, but the French were bemused by this serious choir whose sad and menacing music sounded more religious than warlike. "That how they pray?" the women asked. The troops were returning from manoeuvres

La signora Angellier suonò. La cuoca si affrettò a chiudere le imposte e le finestre, e il buio escluse tutto: i canti, il suono dei baci, il dolce splendore delle stelle, il passo dei vincitori sul selciato , e il verso del rospo assetato che, inappagato, chiedeva acqua al cielo.

Singing is of course a form of aggression.