Quotes About Music

The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.

Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?

Muzica a fost inventat? pentru a compensa absen?a ploii.

Theories abound about how progressive rock is intrinsically British, whereas in America few bands of this ilk emerged from the late 1960s into the 1970s. One accepted theory is that Europe is the birthplace of classical music, whereas in America, it is the nation's rich blues-based tradition that informs rock history. That supports the theory that 400 years of classical music is in the blood over there

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

I mean, music totally comes from your soul.

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

Space is as important as content, and silence as important as singing. Our music and art should be filled with more beauty, more grace, and definitely more space. In the layer beneath the text God speaks to us; in the silence we hear God's heartbeat;

Now I know that the songs are just tools that help us get in the right place for the presence of God to become real and tangible to us

It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.

My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even.

Guitarists always start in the bedroom

I like playing my guitar when I expect nothing from it.

books, teapots, thunderstorms, bridges, street musicians, coming attractions

Miles Davis once said: "Do not fear mistakes—there are none.

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

Las interpretaciones musicales, desde el lastimero punteado de una simple cuerda de violín, hasta el frenesí vertiginoso del rock, ¿celebran cada una a su manera la evolución victoriosa de las señales auditivas sobre las señales visuales, el nacimiento del lenguaje y el comienzo del extraordinario vuelo de las culturas humanas?

at the start of our together you were the prelude to a vast orchestration. at the end of it all you will have been the most profound and enduring music of my life.

church organist for the past twenty-one years, stroked the last notes of "Faith of Our Fathers." The next several minutes were ritual Catholic routine—up, down, sit, up, down, sit. When the calisthenics ended, Father Benedict stood before the pulpit and gazed out at his congregation.

Love is friendship set to music.

Breaking up. It happens kind of suddenly. One minute, you're holding hands walking down the street, and the next minute, you're lying on the floor crying and all the good CDs are missing.

Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.