Quotes About Music

She had also a taste for music. Nestling upon a pile of scores, she would listen most attentively and with every mark of satisfaction to the singers who came to perform at the critic's piano. But high notes made her nervous, and she never failed to close the singer's mouth with her paw if the lady sang the high A. We used to try the experiment for the fun of the thing, and it never failed once. It was quite impossible to fool my dilettante cat on that note.

Thus the ordinary, uncontrolled chattering we call "prose" changes its nature, like coal becoming incandescent. Poetry resembles music.

I wanted to love this piano. I wanted to invite music back into my life.

The effect is captivating as all of the tones mix, like a watercolor with hues swirled together, and lovely carrying notes long after the fingers are lifted from the keys.

The piano became a kind of flying carpet by which I could travel to an entirely different place, and I would leave the room with the half-dazed sensibility that children sometimes show when they have discovered a new and agreeable and utterly private world of their own.

On ne fait pas de musique contre quelqu'un" ("One does not make music against someone else").

Natural movement is riskier," he acknowledged, "but life is risky and music is an element of life, so it is risky, too!

the exuberance of the moment drowning out all other sensations but that of music's delicious momentum.

What allowed a person sitting in front of this strange giant to call forth beautiful sounds just by moving his fingers up and down?

It's a world with its own traditions and lore, some of which are hidden within pianos themselves.

There is no such thing as music note by note just as there is no such thing as a book word by word. We have to accept that things are ambiguous," Sebök said to one of the students on the last day of the master class. Is there any more fundamental lesson that we must learn as we mature? As my friend had told me, he might have been talking about all of life, not just music.

a "mélomane," the French word for music lover;

Think of a full-size harp, the kind used in orchestras. Pivot it mentally from the vertical, as it normally stands, to the horizontal and put it in a box shaped to its frame. There you have the shape of the grand piano.

I sat down on the bench and started playing, instantly lost in the perfection of the moment; I was elsewhere.

Music isn't music unless we share it with others," she told me, but even then that sentiment seemed unsatisfactory to me.

Motionless, he held the final chord for a long moment and we felt—I could almost say watched—the harmony rise into the light-filled cold of the atelier.

emerged with a shared sense of the exultation that great music can bring.

Remember, too, that the trees for the wood that was used to build this piano were most likely planted in the late sixteenth century.

On a visit to the Steinway showroom in New York, I saw Henry Steinway, the last member of the family to be connected with the company, take out a felt-tip pen and sign the painted metal frame of a piano for an enthusiastic customer. It was like watching a baseball player sign a ball, or an author his book, and seemed in keeping with our age of celebrity.

Take a sad song and make it better.

Listen to the colour of your dreams.

Y'all thought I was dead huh? Nah I just came back from Malaysia to finish up a track with pac.

Listen within yourself and look into the infinitude of Space and Time. There can be heard the songs of the Constellations, the voices of the Numbers, and the harmonies of the Spheres.

There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal