Quotes About Music

Unfortunately for the composers of the time, wealthy Renaissance merchants were more likely to commission a painting than a composition. The painting could be owned, repeatedly shown off, and later resold, unlike the music. The financial incentive to commission a composition, which can be enjoyed by any audience member, was weaker. Paintings were closer to private goods, and musical performances were closer to public goods.

The first thing you do to get over your depression is open up the curtains, put on some good music, take you a shower, get up, put on a good face, and open the door and go out and see the world. Everything that's kicking you, kick it back.

I know only two tunes. One of them is 'Yankee Doodle' the other isn't.

When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.

Your skin was song. Your advice was:see.

To love is like playing the piano. First, you must learn to play by the rules. Then, you must forget the rules and play from your heart.

Modern jazz: Variations on a non-existent theme

France is an absolute monarchy, tempered by ballads.

A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.

It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

Her arms rippled with muscles. Harriet was impressed. Apparently playing the harp only looked delicate.

Opera singers hardly ever got to slay dragons.

I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.

Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room,Barrel-house kings; with feet unstable,Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table,Pounded on the table,Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom.

He could sing in more different keys during the course of one song than anybody I've ever heard,

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

In actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover, invent, solve problems crack jokes, make music -- all with love. In other words, create a magic world.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

It's a marvelous night for a moondance!

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.