Quotes About Music

She did not understand music and it upset her, it had only sad, tragic things to say. These leaping forms, these pursuits and insistences, these elusive desperate repetitions, always seemed to her like one long cry of agony. She could not, in this company, allow herself the luxury of self-pitying tears, which was her highest tribute to the art. She looked about her and let the music gather to her the people with whom she was so deeply concerned.

Civilization is built by the artist, by the literary exponent, by the ability to generate beauty and music and new methods of expression.

It was, as the song said, 'call to arms music,' and seemed to have little to do with Scotland and New Year. It was fighting music. Stevie didn't want to fight anyone. But it was also beautiful music.

You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.

You cannot make your shimmy shake on tea

Art should be linked to abstract things - color, line, tone. It is not an instrument to improve social conditions and chase ugliness. Painting is like music and it has to separate from everyday reality.

I don't know. How did Beethoven hear the Ninth Symphony in his head before he wrote it down? The brain's a pretty good computer, too, isn't it?

The music could no more repeat itself than could snowflakes, and could no more fail of beauty.

There was a thin, reedy quaver in the air, that wavered raggedly up the scale. It hovered, dropped and caught itself, gained in body, and swooped into a booming crash that had the effect of a thunderous split in a veiling curtain.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. -Isaac Stern

that little bit between each note — silences which give the form

Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.

We have to defend democracy, but remember that not everything is politics. Without science, industry, and technology, no progress is possible, and without music and art, there's no soul.

Se encerraba en su habitación a escuchar sus sinfonías predilectas y deleitarse en su propia tristeza

Without science, industry, and technology, no progress is possible, and without music and art, there's no soul

Without science, industry, and technology, no progress is possible, and without music and art, there's no soul," he would maintain.

Sin ciencia, industria y técnica no hay progreso posible, y sin música y arte no hay alma»

It was a long week of penitence and fasting, during which there were no card games and no music that might lead to lust or abandon; and within the limits of possibility, the strictest sadness and chastity were observed, even though it was precisely at this time that the forked tail of the devil pricked most insistently at Catholic flesh.

Ese año cambiaron muchas cosas en su vida. Terminó el colegio y decidió estudiar filosofía, para darse el gusto, y música, para llevar la contra a su abuelo, que consideraba el arte como una forma de perder el tiempo y predicaba incansablemente las ventajas de las profesiones liberales o científicas.

Se mantenían invisibles, pero empezamos a oír el llamado lúgubre de la trutuca y de los pilloi, una flauta que hacen con huesos de las piernas de sus enemigos

Alba estiró la mano y él se la estrechó con la izquierda. Entonces ella notó que le faltaban varios dedos de la mano derecha, pero él le explicó que a pesar de eso podía tocar la guitarra, porque siempre hay una forma de hacer lo que uno quiere hacer.

You get three Venezuelans together and one will play the drums or the guitar and the other two will dance; there is no ill that can resist that treatment. Our parties, in contrast, seem like funerals: the men gather in a corner to talk business and the women die of boredom. Only the young dance, seduced by North American music, but as soon as they marry they turn solemn like their parents.

discovered flamenco dancing, which