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Quotes About Music

Physics, mathematics, music, painting, my politics, my love for you, my work, the star-dust of my body, the spirit that impels it, clocks diurnal, time perpetual, the roll, rough, tender, swamping, liberating, breathing, moving, thinking nature, human nature and the cosmos are patterned together.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I sat at the back, listening to the music or mumbling through the sevice. I'm never tempted by God, but I like his trappings.
~ Jeanette Winterson
When I sing the dogs sit quiet and people who pass in the night stop their jabbering and discontent and think of other times, when they were happy. And I sing of other times, when I was happy, though I know that these are figments of my mind and nowhere I have ever been.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I have music. Music is the world inside me. I am a performer, but whether or not I perform, the music is there.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I sat at the back, listening to the music or mumbling through the service. I'm never tempted by God, but I like his trappings.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music; but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against which prejudices are powerless. I soon contracted the passion it inspires in all those born to understand it.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Las óperas de Rameau empezaban a meter ruido y dieron a conocer sus obras teóricas, que, habiendo permanecido ignoradas, poseían muy pocos. Por casualidad oí hablar de su Tratado de la armonía
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Me preguntó si había copiado música alguna vez. Respondíle que a menudo, y era la verdad: el mejor modo como podía aprenderla era copiándola.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
C'est le genre boys band avec des mocassins à glands.
~ Unknown
And the concert halls overflow with humiliated, outraged people who close their eyes and try to turn their pale faces into receiving antennæ. They imagine that the sounds flow into them, sweet, nourishing, and that their sufferings become music, like Werther; they think that beauty is compassionate to them. Mugs. I
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I was moved no end by the work of LaVern Baker.
~ Unknown
I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.
~ Johnny Ramistella
There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.
~ Kate Bush
I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I've chosen to work with.
~ Katy B
There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.
~ Keith Richards
To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.
~ Keith Richards
It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group.
~ Ken Hensley
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
~ Lee Konitz
I don't really have any "must work withs," but I would never refuse if a celebrity or fellow musician came along who is willing to write or sing or play on a Lita song.
~ Lita Ford
Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
~ Mandy Moore
Too many bands practice in their garage, play a couple of shows locally, and expect opportunities to appear from the sky. Bands have to push, work, grind, and struggle to make it happen on their own.
~ Mark Hoppus
Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.
~ Mark Morris
Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.
~ Maynard James Keenan
I'm gonna do between 75 and 100 dates. A lot of it will be in Laughlin, Nevada; I'll be there for two weeks. And I'll work some casinos here and there, and the fair dates.
~ Mel Tillis