Quotes About Music

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music, and of aviation.

A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases its worth and sweetens its tone.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

People accuse us of being nothing more than a disco band now, but they don't know what they're talking about. If you listen to our records, you'll find that there's dance music. But there are also ballads like 'More Than A Woman.' And there are some very beautiful, undanceable songs, too.

I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album.

There's only one woman I know of who could never be a symphony conductor, and that's the Venus de Milo.

The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.

When you miss someone, every song you hear seems to be written and sung with them in mind.

Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it.

You know you're in love when every sweet love song seems to be describing your partner or your relationship.

Hearing is more Powerful than sight. If music is the food of Love, play on! This is the power of hearing and it's effect upon the heart.

Love is like music, every new rhythm gives life a whole new meaning.

Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise. All the rain of heaven may fall into the sea. Without love, not one drop could become a pearl.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

Mollie Carter would sing the hymns she loved best: "The Land of the Uncloudy Day," "Amazing Grace," or "The Gospel Ship." But she also sang traditional ballads, known as "English" songs, because the form—if not the songs themselves—had crossed the Atlantic with the English and Scotch-Irish who settled the southern mountains.

Sam Phillips's boys—Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash—were raised on gospel and country music.

The Carters won fame—if not fortune—because they could recast the traditional music of rural America for a modern audience. And like their music, the Carters themselves had to negotiate the gap between the insular culture of preindustrial Appalachia and the newly modern America.