Quotes About Music

Study Bach, there you will find everything.

The music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but in a form / so rarefied there was no emptiness of sensation

rum-drinking pirates, strong-willed women, courtly manners, eccentric behavior, gentle words, and lovely music.

lay loooo-yah! A-layyyy-loo yah!" He had abandoned his tenor and was singing in a wavering falsetto.

These, then, were the images in my mental gazetteer of Savannah: rum-drinking pirates, strong-willed women, courtly manners, eccentric behavior, gentle words, and lovely music. That and the beauty of the name itself: Savannah.

Because of my music, I have never known loneliness and never been depressed.

music plays a significant, key role in cultivating an atmosphere for the presence of the Lord. It has the ability to open and prepare a person's heart.

Songs are perhaps the most powerful auditory anchors. I'll bet you've experienced riding in your car listening to the radio and suddenly you remembered a person or scene from long ago. Our whole lives are an accumulation of such anchored imprints—pleasant as well as painful.

But let none, he added, pray to have the full music; for it will make him who hears it a footsore traveller in

It's wonderful! Music in the house! Music in the heart! And music also in heaven, for joy that we are here!

When I want to really get to know someone, I ask three questions. People's answers to these give me great insight into someone's heart. The questions are: What do you dream about? What do you sing about? What do you cry about?

Mr. Holland's Opus

The music came through clearly. The new instrument had a much purer tone, she thought, than the old one. She decided that tone was most important and that she could conceal the cabinet behind a sofa. But as soon as she had made her peace with the radio, the interference began.

John Cleese... he cannot sing and keeps a locked piano in his room to prove it.

Cuando un hombre y una mujer están enamorados crean su propia música, es algo que sucede instintivamente, no necesitan lecciones.

Following the Beatles, who incidentally were put together by the Tavistock Institute, came other Made in England rock groups, who, like the Beatles, had Theo Adorno write their cult lyrics and compose all the music. I hate to use these beautiful words in the context of Beatlemania; it reminds me of how wrongly the word lover is used when referring to the filthy interaction between two homosexuals writhing in pigswill. To call rock music, is an insult, likewise the language used in rock lyrics.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls.

I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once.

My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there's no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.

After all the investigation, all of the technique-doesn't matter! Only if the feeling is right.

I would like to bring to people something like happiness. I would like to discover a method so that if I want it to rain, it will start right away to rain. If one of my friends is ill, I'd like to play a certain song and he will be cured; when he'd be broke, I'd bring out a different song and immediately he'd receive all the money he needed.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere

Lots of people imagine wrongly that 'My Favorite Things' is one of my compositions; I would have loved to have written it, but it's by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Favorite Things' is my favorite piece of all those I have recorded.