Quotes About Music

The whiskey-soaked strains of Cesaria Evora came from the headphones of his portable CD player.

he'd come up from Bradford to see the band. I didn't know him, but he was

Sometimes Barry plays the most depressing things." "Joy Division," said Banks. "He committed suicide. The lead singer." "I'm not bloody surprised. I'd commit suicide if I sounded like him.

The need to turn off like this for a while was vital, but so was the ability to snap back into action quickly. Fortunately, his mobile didn't ring, and he was able to finish listening to Romance oubliée and lose himself in sun-dappled memories of Emily Hargreaves and the golden days of his lost youth.

Inexplicable music that should have sounded joyful but was instead wound full of the darkness emotions you know.

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

As a young child in Rome, he wrote out the entire score of a nine-voice religious work after hearing it twice.

Rhythm is what we beat our feet to. It is "the time relationship between tunes.

the best way to get players to coordinate their actions was to have them play the game in 4/4 time. The basic rule was that the player with the ball had to do something with it before the third beat: either pass, shoot, or start to dribble. When everyone is keeping time, it makes it easier to harmonize with one another, beat by beat.

No toques el saxofón, déjate tocar por él. CHARLIE PARKER

Arnie Kott owned the only harpsichord on Mars. However, it was out of tune, and he could find no one to service it. No matter which way you cut it, there were no harpsichord tuners on Mars.

What about -- not sex -- but love?' 'Love is another name for sex.' 'Like love of country,' Rick said. 'Love of music.

Too bad Mahler never saw a Morley wah-wah pedal, he thought, or he would have scored it into one of his longer works.

The jukebox played some hillbilly tune; steel guitar and emotion-choked moaning...

Thinking this he wondered if Mozart had had any intuition that the future did not exist, that he had already used up his little time.

tiene por casualidad una droga cuyo efecto, en unos términos semejantes a los del órgano Hammerstein, corresponda a algunos fragmentos del movimiento coral de la Novena de Beethoven?

The Musicians of Bremen

Por él habría cambiado mi naturaleza. Me habría olvidado del titilar de las estrellas y de la música de la aurora, no habría vuelto a volar en mi vida (...)pero uno no puede cambiar lo que es, lo único que puede cambiar es lo que hace.

The music I play after dinner is not a relief from the silence but something like its substantiation: listening to music for an hour or two every evening doesn't deprive me of the silence — the music is the silence coming true.

Nessuno dei pezzi di musica seria che aveva ascoltato per tutta la vita adulta gli dava la stessa emozione che ora provava ascoltando il vecchio swing: -Quel po' di stoicismo che ho dentro se ne va, e il desiderio di non morire, di non morire mai, si fa quasi insopportabile.

A sense of calm settled over Tenaka. An inner peace seemed to pulse from the very earth at his feet, from the distant blue mountain, to whisper in the long grass of the Steppes. He closed his eyes and opened his ears to the music of silence.

I was the disastrous première of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. And Ravel's Bolero too.

Mom says that the music is my way of trying to get close to Dad. But she's wrong. The music isn't my way of getting close to Dad or anyone. It's my way of getting away from both of them and going somewhere else. Someplace where things always resolve in the final eight bars.

You were listening to the music as deeply as anyone I've ever seen. I was so happy for you that day-because you'd discovered something all your own. And I was so glad it was something I could give to you.