Quotes About Music

Ma, assorbito da quella musica, il suo grande dolore si coloriva, diveniva ancora più importante, pur facendosi semplice, puro, perché mondate d'ogni avvilimento.

[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not as meaningful.

This has been my vocation to make music of what remains.

The music of men's lives' isn't as easy to recognize as the average fool thinks

A song says something to us that we can't hear in any other way. There is a kind of magic to it. Music does not simply soothe the savage breast, it reaches to our better nature, wouldn't we all agree?

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

as if I'd said I wanted to sell cheese sandwiches outside Grateful Dead concerts...

Ik vraag of ze de muziek af wil zetten. Er is al zoveel lawaai op de wereld.

As there is something in our design like Furies to drive us down, so there is something in our design like Angels to help us up. If it were not so, we could not even be told about it. Yet we can. The indestructibility of our longing for lightness, for purity, for music is like a small star of hope in a darkened sky, an inkling of the Star that rules the day.

Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.

I love recording music.

Music . . . . A magic beyond all we do here!

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here

The I-Kiribati are a remarkably musical people. Everyone sings. There is something arresting about seeing a tough-looking teenage boy suddenly put a flower behind his ear and begin to croon.

The Singing Revolution

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

The aim and final end of all music should be none other then the Glory of God and the refreshment of the soul

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

Ian sat and listened in the studio, headphones around his neck, staring at the floor. That was his heart they'd just heard.

Music offered up a fourth wonder of life, transporting people to new dimensions of symbolic meaning in experiences at concerts, listening quietly to a piece of music, chanting in a religious ceremony, or simply singing with others.

These three stories of awe—the scientific, the cultural, and the personal—converge on an understanding of how we can find awe. Where do we find it? In response to what I will call the eight wonders of life, which include the strength, courage, and kindness of others; collective movement in actions like dance and sports; nature; music; art and visual design; mystical encounters; encountering life and death; and big ideas or epiphanies.