Quotes About Music

Music, she thought, perhaps could be a continuing process, like life, a shedding of one skin as fast as another grew. Instead every tune seemed to exist with its notes firmly rooted in an event or an emotion or a period of time.

Life is like--like one of those hobby-horses you ride at a fair--round and round you go enjoying every moment and then the--then the music stops...

The trouble with music was that in some way it was too nostalgic...every tune seemed to exist with its notes firmly rooted in an event or an emotion or a period of time.

Demelza cominciò a cantare giocosa e con voce profonda: «C'era una vecchia coppia, senza un soldo in tasca, Tweedle, tweedle, go twee.»

Posso farti i dispetti, tirarti i capelli, gridare e cantare, se mi va, e suonare la vecchia spinetta. Divido il letto con te e al mattino, quando mi sveglio, faccio un profondo respiro e penso a cose importanti.

I got to tell you, that if it weren't for that harmonica music, i might of just packed up and gone home, but it made me feel so good, I can hardly describe it. Sort of like my whole body is the harmonica and the music give me goosebumps when I play it.

Môr o gân yw Cymru i gyd. [All Wales is a sea of song.]

O sofrimento (capítulo três) não insulta o corpo. A morte chega com o sono. E vais sonhar que nem é preciso respirar, que o silêncio sem ar não é uma música má, pequeno como uma fagulha, a um toque te apagarás.

E sognerai che non occorre affatto respirare che il silenzio senza respiro è una musica passabile, sei piccolo come una scintilla e ti spegni al ritmo di quella.

Ku tej idei - ?e taniec stwarza muzyk? - par?a ludzko?? wszystkimi drogami swoimi, ona sta?a si? natchnieniem i met? mojego czasu, ku niej i ja d??y?em po spirali, coraz cia?niejsze zataczaj?c kr?gi. Ale w tej?e chwili zosta?em unicestwiony. Gdy? zda?em sobie spraw?, ?e my?l t? my?l? jedynie dla jej patosu!

Otó? fakt, ?e nasz jÄ™zyk nie zmienia siÄ™ od podstaw po przekroczeniu fatalnej granicy, ?e pomiÄ™dzy pierwszymi a ostatnimi sonatami Beethovena nie ma przepaÅ›ci, nie dajÄ…cej siÄ™ wypeÅ'ni?, jest bijÄ…cym w oczy dowodem, ?e czÅ'owiek w swym indywidualnym istnieniu nie mo?e siÄ™ wypowiedzie? - ?e jest milczeniem - ?e jest pozbawiony wyrazu.

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how music should be played.

Since I've written quite a number of songs for my plays, I would like to be nominated for a Grammy

The human voice vibrates naturally - but in such a way - to such a degree that it all sounds beautiful - it is the nature of the voice. We imitate such effects not only on wind instruments, but also with violins - even on clavier - but as soon as you go beyond the natural limits, it no longer sounds beautiful - because it is contrary to nature.

What annoys me most is that these stupid Frenchmen think I am still just seven years old - because that was my age when they first saw me - (...) they treat me here like a beginner - except the musicians; they know better.

you know that I am, as it were, completely immersed in Musique - it is on my mind all day long - I love to plan - study - reflect on it (...).

If a passage occurs twice it is played slower the second time; if three times, still slower.

The organ is in my eyes and ears the king of all instruments.

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart takes pity on Leutgeb, ass, ox, and simpleton, at Vienna, March 27, 1783.

I was absolutely determined to leave. They wouldn't let me. They wanted me to give a concert; I wanted them to beg me. And so they did. I gave a concert.

The thing is I have an inexpressible desire to write an opera again; it would make me so happy because it gives me something to compose which is my real joy and passion (...).

Analysis] has helped, but not as much as I've wanted. Years ago, I remember, I brought my clarinet into the repair shop, and the guy took two weeks and put new pads on and everything. When I went in, I said, 'Thank you, but am I going to sound better?' And he said, 'Yes, you will sound better, but not as much as you'd like to.

I had decided to delight the audience by playing my soprano saxophone for their delectation (years later, a music critic would describe my playing at a concert as "excruciating").