Quotes About Music

People stereotype female rappers a whole lot.

People hear traditional jazz and think it's stale, where there are so many ways it can be opened up. With New Orleans and old-time grooves, there's no limit in what can be done with that. I want to break the stereotype of what traditional jazz is.

I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.

It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.

All of the original Wiggles were boys, but the girls sure loved them. In a preliteral age before 3, children don't necessarily know it's boys or girls on stage, but we tend to stereotype.

Melody, for Baroque composers, is prose, not poetry. It does not come in paired lines (like a folk song, or a Schubert Lied), but in rhetorical sentences or paragraphs.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vaultThe pealing anthem swells the note of praise.

Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd,Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre.

I'm saddest when I sing.

Faintly as tolls the evening chime,Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time.

The harp that once through Tara's hallsThe soul of music shed,Now hangs as mute on Tara's wallsAs if that soul were fled.

See, the conquering hero comes!Sound the trumpet, beat the drums!

See the conquering hero comes Sound the trumpets, beat the drums

Fapt este ca termenul "profet", caruia epocile ulterioare i-au atribuit un nou sens, era cuvantul biblic penru "poet", iar cuvantul a "profeti" insemna arta de a face poezie. Insemna, de asemenea, arta de a interpreta poezie dupa melodia oricarui instrument muzical.

Suddenly, he wanted all of them, wanted to gather them up—David and Delores, Juanita and Carine and Katherine, Uncle Connor and Brad—and place them in an orchestra that would play the music of his life. He wanted to leave out none of it—not the trombone, not the cello, not the cymbals or the violin. Synthesis. He needed a fusing together of all the strands of his life: past and present, black and white, poor and rich.

I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything.

Tell me what you listen to, and I'll tell you who you are.

Has the industry done to music what McDonald's has done to eating?

For the record, if I were Superman, a pale, scrawny guy holding a guitar would be Kryptonite.

I'd be a sucker for a guy who wrote me a song," I said. "Like Beth or Rosanna or Sara. Or Sharona. Is that too much to ask? To be somebody's Sharona?

It sounds silly I know. But for me, the power of music rests in its ability to reach inside and touch the places where the deepest cuts lie. Like a benevolent god, a good song will never let you down.

When I asked Vera why Michael was so obstinate, she told me that some asshole had recently broken Eliza's heart. A drummer, no less. Hell, even I know girls should stay away from the goddamn drummers.

I just happen to comprehend the low standards of the majority of the music-buying public, and I don't care how condescending that sounds, it's true. They always go for the shiny gimmicks. Always.