Quotes About Music

Lulled by the calming music of ice clattering in the cocktail shaker, I began to ponder; this life we had going for ourselves

Music was coming from a balcony at Frenchmen and Chartres, someone playing a saxophone. And then a voice. "This is Radio Marigny reporting from Atlantis. The bitch Katrina blew through Monday and now we're sunk. Also fucked. But we're dry in the Marigny and the Quarter! Everywhere else is underwater. The water's still rising, folks—where it stops, nobody knows.

His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body.

For entertainment there were only Mao Thought Propaganda Teams, who sang Mao's quotations set to raucous music.

What is seen is not the Truth What is cannot be said Trust comes not without seeing Nor understanding without words The wise comprehends with knowledge To the ignorant it is but a wonder Some worship the formless God Some worship his various forms In what way He is beyond these attributes Only the Knower knows That music cannot be written How can then be the notes Say Kabir, awareness alone will overcome illusion.

The leaf that spreads in the light is the only holiness there is. I haven't found holiness in the faiths of mortals, or in their music, not in their dreams: it's out in the open field, with the green rows looking at the sky. I don't know what it is, this holiness: but it's there, and it looks at the sky. Probably though this is some conditioning the Company installed to ensure I'd be a good botanist. Well, I grew up into a good one. Damned good.

Where, My Lord, is music bred—upon the instrument or within the ear that listens? The loveliness of woman is created in the eye of man.

Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it.

Until the song is sung and the musicians have all gone home, not even you can tell which notes made the melody.

If I can't play music that people appreciate, then I want to play music that people love.

dashboard. She didn't know the opening lyrics, but she belted out the chorus. " Ã¢â'¬ËœPoor, poor pitiful me!' Ã¢â'¬Â She nudged Maggie. " Ã¢â'¬ËœPoor, poor pitiful me!' Ã¢â'¬Â Maggie smiled despite herself. Gail bellowed, " Ã¢â'¬ËœPoor, poor pitiful me!' 

If you love music—really, truly, love music—then you play it for yourself.

heaven and earth, nature and man, comedy and tragedy, … the Virgin Mary and the demons...Mozart simply contains and includes all this within his music in perfect harmony. This harmony is not a matter of "balance" or "indifference" – it is a glorious upsetting of the balance, a turning in which the light rises and the shadows fall, in which the Yes rings louder than the ever-present

Agape is related to Eros, as Mozart to Beethoven. How could they possibly be confused?

Agape is related to Eros, as Mozart to Beethoven. How could they possibly be confused? Agape

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

It's funny, isn't it, Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too.

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

I will be patient, kind, faithful and true To a man who loves music a man who loves art Respect's the spirit world and thinks with his heart

A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.

I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups.

I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.

I should have blown this mic like I said I might Got the force of 20 men like a Jedi Knight.

John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive