Quotes About Music

Why did girls never play air guitar? Did we sing along because singing was what girls did or was it that girls only sang because they didn't play air guitar? These are not questions I asked myself at the time. I was pushing away such complications.

Being a woman seemed to mean listening to the music boys liked and neither dancing nor singing along.

My mother] believed we could each change the world, but what convinced me this was possible was music.

loving music didn't have to mean wanting the same song all the time, or believing it perfect, and that what you loved didn't have to add up, let alone define you.

This is the starting point of dance: something -- the music, the steps, your partner -- holds you but you also have to hold it and, to achieve the necessary tension, hold yourself against it.

If you don't hear this kind of music [pop] at the right time, can it ever make sense to you?

I got to know [teen music] as we absorb music in passing but can remember only its seriousness and weight.

There are times when we need the rocket fuel of singing and dancing to power us through an act of blind faith. Falling in love is one of those times, when we need to move into a phase of enchantment with enough force so that when things cool and the air clears, we are locked into that person, that love. We fall in love and we sing as we walk down the street; we turn up the music and dance.

Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven.

Music is only love looking for words.

To be scientifically illiterate is to remain essentially uncultured. And the chief virtue of a cultural activity--be it art, music, literature, or science--is the way it enriches our lives.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

At home I'm just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.

Then Nature shaped a poet's heart -- a lyre From out whose chords the lightest breeze that blows Drew trembling music, wakening sweet desire.

Hark to the music! How beneath the strain Of reckless revelry, vibrates and sobs One fundamental chord of constant pain, The pulse-beat of the poet's heart that throbs.

To learn a belief without belief is to sing a song without the tune.

It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.

I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program in my school wasn't really great - people didn't really want to be part of the choir, they didn't want to do the plays and stuff like that. It definitely wasn't the cool thing to do.