Quotes About Music

We sing more colored than the Africans," boasted John Lennon, and few Americans were inclined to dispute him.

Too bad people can't always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn't be any more wars.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed its point.

Who would carry the bell canto - Of course Montserrat Caballe

Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.

Oh, here. Here's the record player." Barney lifted a light-blue and white case from one of the eaves. She set it on a trunk and unlatched the lid. "Ever see one of these?" She held up a small plastic disklike thing. Cara and Allie both shook their heads. "This is an insert that you'd put inside one of the forty-five singles so they'd play.

You can only touch infinity by achieving a heart of violins. You can not be in an enormous love more than the one that imagines that much horizon.

Ixion music and party are our only beliefs. Darkness is our comfort. We have few rules but they are absolute. Your endocrine systems have been altered by changes to your hypothalamus. You no longer need to sleep or see sunlight.' More titters and cheers.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

Chris Black-well, who owned Island Records. Blackwell loved the tracks and said, "Let's take it the whole way." My God, we were on! We cut the rest of

You've the beat of a dancer to a measure or harmonious rush of a porpoise at the prow where the racers all win easily— like centaurs' legs in tune, as when kettledrums compete; nose rigid and suede nostrils spread, a light left hand on the rein, till well—this is a rhapsody.

If you wish, gentle reader, you may augment your mental tableau with dramatic orchestral accompaniment.

takes its colours from the mind, my dear friend;"—he said—"If you discover evil suggestions in my music, the evil, I fear, must be in your own nature.

As the music stops you'll miss its lilt. Keep dancing, keep listening. Speak up. Ask for more music, more. In case you don't know, what you want is magnificent, yours for the asking, the rhythm of magnanimous exchange.

The idea is to make the ingredients sing, not a grand opera, but a jolly chanson.

I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound.

We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.