Quotes About Music

The sound of his yearning had no melodic line.

She sang. Loudly. Cheerfully. Defiantly. The sun will come up, to-mor-row... If the man battling the elements heard her, he gave no indication. She finished the songs she knew from Annie , then started on Phantom of the Opera. Tally sang to keep the fear tamped down. She sang to defy the storm. She sang to make sure God knew where she was since she couldn't think of an appropriate prayer. And she sincerely hoped He liked show tunes.

We are the only primates that can tap our foot or move our body in time with a specific rhythm. It's wired into us, but not into our chimp or gorilla cousins, which tells us that it is a trait that like language, big toes, and toolmaking evolved sometime over the past seven million years.

El modelo tradicional de promoción, comercialización y distribución de música ha perdido vigencia. Los principales sellos discográficos y el sistema de distribución minorista que adquirió dimensiones colosales gracias a la fábrica de éxitos de la radio se encuentran con un modelo empresarial dependiente de los grandes éxitos; y ahora ya no hay suficientes discos de oro y de platino. Estamos asistiendo al fin de una era.

En este gráfico podemos ver que los géneros en sí mismos forman una larga cola, y dentro de cada género hay otra larga cola de temas individuales. Y así sucesivamente para todo el universo musical, que parece ser una misma gran curva de popularidad pero que, en realidad, son curvas dentro de curvas dentro de curvas.

Individualmente, ninguna de estas canciones es popular, pero hay tantas que colectivamente representan un mercado sustancial.

The natural model for music and anything else where the marginal costs of manufacturing and distribution are close to zero is variable pricing.

Una manera de considerar la diferencia entre las opciones limitadas de ayer y la abundancia de hoy es imaginar nuestra cultura como un océano en cuya superficie sólo existen islas de popularidad. Hay una isla musical compuesta de álbumes de gran venta, una isla de películas compuesta de éxitos de taquilla, un archipiélago de programas populares de televisión, y así sucesivamente.

Más del 99 por ciento de los álbumes musicales existentes en el mercado no están disponibles en Wal-Mart.

Did you know that a lot of Emily Dickinson's poems can be sung to the theme from Gilligan's Island? Not kidding, this is totally legit.

We were separated by years, tastes in music, food, clothes, and politics, but we delighted in baseball.

What happened when these people sang was more than just humans hitting notes. The music seemed to come from somewhere deep inside and when their voices united, it felt like goosebumps on the soul. Something like joy bubbled up from inside her and leaked through her eyes.

Every song, just like every person, has a story....All good songs leak from a broken heart. And the good ones don't give you something, as much as they take what's already inside and blow on the embers. [Mack Strum]

song—a long, winding tune that turns minor at times, major at times, but mostly is just running along in the background

Isn't it funny what a song can do to a broken heart.

I can play any instrument if you give me 20 minutes.

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'

They have barricades at our gigs - to keep people in. We do most of the songs from 'Scrubs' over 55 minutes.

'Just What I Am' took me all of 10 minutes to make. 'Immortal' maybe took 30 minutes. It's not hard for me. 'Indicud' is almost what my first album should have sounded like, had I really been able to channel all of the ideas I had into music.

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds.

Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at.

With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.

I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.