Quotes About Music

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You've the heart of a chanter who loves one song at sunup and another at sundown. Don't you see that both are part of the same day?

À l'horloge de tes baisers, le temps se ramollit. Le jour met son pyjama d'étoiles en cachette et s'évapore. L'orchestre à moteur qui fulmine au feu rouge joue en sourdine. La lune te regarde à travers la fenêtre. Elle va peindre ses reflets sur ta peau. Du bout de mes doigts, je m'efforcerai d'être un tout petit peu plus que son pinceau.

Mi corazón no late, baila.

Ne restait plus que la mélodie asthmatique en ré mineur sifflée par ses tout petits poumons.

le rock' n' roll, c'est un oasis d'adrénaline pour enfants perdus.

Love is the soul's symphony.

Dying cricket - how full of life, his song.

I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

Music doesn't get in. Music is already in. Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn't necessarily know you had inside you, and runs around waking them all up. A rebirth of sorts.

Curiosity and passion are the enemies of anxiety. Even when I fell into anxiety, if I get curious enough about something outside of me it can help pull me out. Music, art, film, nature, conversation, words. Find passion as large as your fear. The way out of your mind is via the world.

I have long convinced myself that the piano is like a drug, seductive and strong, and it can mess you up, it can awaken dead emotions, it can drown you in your lost selves. It is a nervous breakdown waiting to happen.

There was an old musician's cliché, about how there were no wrong notes on a piano.

You have the power to stop time. You do it by kissing. Or listening to music.

Life can sometimes feel like an overproduced song, with a cacophony of a hundred instruments playing all at once. Sometimes the song sounds better stripped back to just a guitar and a voice. Sometimes, when a song has too much happening, it's hard to hear the song at all.

Willie Nelson once said that sometimes, you have to either write a song or you kick your foot through a window. The third option , I suppose , is that you write a book.

I had never been one of those males who were scared of tears. I'd been a Cure fan, for God's sake.

You are, of course, allowed to love food and music and champagne and rare sunny afternoons in October. You can love the sight of waterfalls and the smell of old books.

Music is about time,' I told her. 'It is about controlling time.

The silence at the end of the song is as important as the song itself.

The very reason such music exists is because it is a language that couldn't be communicated in any other way. But all I can say is that I felt suddenly

And then he - Tchaikovsky - turned towards the little lectern that was on the stage, picked up his baton and held it in the air. He paused a moment. It was like watching an old wizard with a wand, summoning the energy needed to cast a spell... Time slowed inside that moment. Then the music began.

This was jazz music. It was full of the complexity and contradictions that I would soon learn made humans human.