Quotes About Music

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

Unlike their southern counterparts, northern minstrels emphasized a love of longing rather than fulfillment.

The driver turned up a rap tune. Loud. With more bass than a barrage of howitzers. Something by 50 Cent. Or Two-Bits. Shiny Penny. What the hell did I know about rap music?

James's analogy to illustrate the mind-brain relationship: equating "mind" with "brain" is as illogical as listening to music on a radio, demolishing the radio's receiver, and thereby concluding that the radio was creating the music.

Quién habrá inventado la música? ¿El viento? ¿El mar? ¿La lluvia? ¿Cuándo habrá nacido la armonía? ¿Qué habrá sonado primero? ¿El lenguaje de la brisa o el canto del ruiseñor? Desde

La música es un premio, un recurso, una victoria.

It was an amazing experience to work with Michael Jackson, who is a legend.

An avowed feminist activist and an outspoken bisexual, DiFranco has been candid about the necessity of women musicians identifying with the F-word. "Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist," she once wrote. "There is no box marked 'other'".

his desperate sale of The Rite of Spring to Walt Disney, to be used in an animated film called Fantasia.

Zwingli removed the organ from his church in Zurich because he could not find in Scripture a text mandating the use of the organ in Christian worship, while Luther promoted all kinds of musical instruments in church because he saw no scriptural rule against them; plus, he felt that music offered an effective means for conveying the message of the gospel.

The talk was supposed to be about gender and sexuality in music videos. Those who know how I usually flow were tripping at the title [Alicia vs. India], but I had to remind them that had I called the talk "Gender and Sexuality in Music Videos," wouldn't nobody be up in the room.

I was petrified of making a mistake—head-banging to the wrong song or not hard enough, or thinking a guitar solo was over when it wasn't. A rule of thumb is that if the guitar solo is by Led Zep or Lynyrd Skynyrd then it's not over. Ever.

Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music.

Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music. That old adage is certainly true of those who walk to the beat of God's drum. When you take your cues from the Holy Spirit, you'll do some things that will make people think you're crazy. So be it. Obey the whisper and see what God does.

the best brass bands and popular American and British singers the Philippines could imitate.

I am going to pull the music from your mouth and furthermore I'll take the orange aching light that splits your ribs when I or any beautiful things come at you.

The only difference between death and love, one supposedly lasts forever, the other makes you think of classical music.

In terms of helping me heal my mind and heart, Dr. Artaud is good, but music is better. She's right when she says that I hide behind music. I sometimes let sound get physical, so that it rings in my ears, and vibrates in my chest and drowns out the unhappy voices in my head. Other times, like right now, music helps me respond to my better voices, the ones that give me a squeeze to the shoulders and a gentle push ahead." -Star

Music is an act of creation. A musician gives life to a song, even if he or she didn't write it. I would say that learning to play someone else's song is different from writing on yourself, a different kind of commitment. Syke would say it's like raising an adopted child" -Star