Quotes About Music

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.

Why isn't it hip-hop when I do it? Everybody else can have beef within the music, talk about differences and it's ok. It's music, it's hip-hop, it's ground breaking. When I do it, it's war.

If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

We would turn everything into songs in those days...A lot of people think "Alice's Restaurant" was an anti-war song. It's not.

If we could ever find that moment, maybe thousands of years from now, where all the musics of the worlds would be communicating with each other, there would be no more wars, there would be peace.

Playing music in the wake of the Blink thing was like finding love in the middle of a war zone.

There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!

We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.

Strike up the drum and march courageously.

One day that song stopped being on the outside of me and went deep inside. It was there all the time, especially when I was feeling particularly lonely.

Something brushed his leg, and he gazed down into the face of Pippi Tucker. The theme from Jaws raced through his head.

we that were wood when that wide wood was in a physical Universe playing with words bark be my limbs my hair be leaf Bride be my bow my lyre my quiver

She wanted an Angel of Music . . . an angel who would make her believe in herself at last. I'd been the Angel of Doom for the khanum. There was no reason in the world why I could not be the Angel of Music for Christine. I couldn't hope to be a man to her, I couldn't ever be a real, breathing, living man waking at her side and reaching out for her . . . But I could be her angel' -Erik

Everyone was against each other, trying to get their art displayed in the gallery. Some people would write that off as competition. I saw it as bullying. And in the music classes, to tell you the truth, I didn't get a lot of respect. Most kids started playing early. They took lessons with private teachers. My family

For in Western culture, music itself is always in danger of being regarded as the feminine Other that circumvents reason and arouses desire.

Yet the fact that most listeners do not know how to account for the overwhelming push for closure they experience in this music means that it often seems like a force of nature rather than a human ideological construct.

Music is the language of the soul. Music captures our prayers and hopes and joys—and yes, our sorrows—and gives them voice, just as the paintings and the statues give them dimension.

At banquets or by pools people would sit eating grapes and drinking from goblets and listen to the rhapsodes sing. It was not a song with music, but the rhapsodes still sang. They sang of heroes and of journeys.

In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.

It would remain a story without end, like a suspended chord in the last measure of a song - that singular, dissonant, open sound that makes you ache to hear something more.

the Chilean psychiatrist and brilliant thinker Claudio Naranjo, said about music, "Only repetition invites spontaneous innovation," and of course this is true of all the arts. You

hope had become despair, protestors had become terrorists, love had become sex, music had become noise, and us had become me.

You are the composer and conductor and thus decide what key of life to live. I choose major over minor whenever I can.