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Quotes About Music

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie
~ George Lucas
As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.
~ George MacDonald
The song seraphically freeOf taint of personality.
~ George Meredith
Full lasting is the song, though he,The singer, passes.
~ George Meredith
I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.
~ George Michael
Once the singing was and is
~ George Oppen
Poetry must be at least as powerful as music, but I am not sure that it is possible.
~ George Oppen
A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.
~ George R.R. Martin
As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.
~ George R.R. Martin
a man who hates music can't be trusted, I always say.
~ George R.R. Martin
I do so hope he plays us 'The Rains of Castamere.' It has been an hour. I've forgotten how it goes.
~ George R.R. Martin
There are worse things than dying with a song on your lips.
~ George R.R. Martin
Sam loved to listen to music and make his own songs, to wear soft velvets, to play in the castle kitchen beside the cooks, drinking in the rich smells as he snitched lemon cakes and blueberry tarts. His passions were books and kittens and dancing, clumsy as he was.
~ George R.R. Martin
Missandei said the Peaceful People made music instead of war. They did not kill, not even animals; they ate only fruit and never flesh.
~ George R.R. Martin
If I am ever Hand again, the first thing I'll do is hang all the singers," said Tyrion, too loudly.
~ George R.R. Martin
It was pleasant to think that men still sang, even in the midst of butchery and famine.
~ George R.R. Martin
Ser Rodrik groused. His opinion of singers was well known; music was a lovely thing for girls, but he could not comprehend why any healthy boy would fill his hand with a harp when he might have had a sword.
~ George R.R. Martin
Be brave, she told herself. Be brave, like a lady in a song.
~ George R.R. Martin
One day the singers will make all of us immortal.
~ George R.R. Martin
The music from the castles was louder here. The sound of the drums and horns rolled across the camp. The musicians in the nearer castle were playing a different song than the ones in the castle on the far bank, though, so it sounded more like a battle than a song. "They're not very good," Arya observed.
~ George R.R. Martin
When Maester Aemon heard him sing, he said his voice was honey poured over thunder." Jon smiled. "Toad sometimes sings too, if you call it singing. Drinking songs he learned in his father's winesink. Pyp says his voice is piss poured over a fart.
~ George R.R. Martin
We'll have music, such sweet music, and wine, heh, the red will run, and we'll put some wrongs aright.
~ George R.R. Martin
Come on, come on, my sweetling, the music's still playing. Might I have this dance, my lady?
~ George R.R. Martin
He went to the window seat, picked up a harp, and ran his fingers lightly over its silvery strings. Sweet sadness filled the room as man and wife and babe faded like the morning mist, only the music lingering behind to speed her on her way.
~ George R.R. Martin