Quotes About Music

Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.

I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.

Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.

Many people apparently don't trust their reactions to art or to music unless there is a verbal explanation for it. In music the only thing that matters is whether you feel it or not.

I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me.

Hüzünlü birini hüzünlü ?ark?lar teselli eder.

Everything in the world has a spirit which is released by its sound.

An epigram is a gag that's played Carnegie Hall.

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

[On Leadville:] Over the piano was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

We have come to love the music of proof. Logical connection for us is not some popular song about a finch, but a choral symphony, so difficult and so inspired that the conductor must exert all his energy to keep the performers under his control.

he could command an audience, set his box upright on its pole, opened its case, and began to play, bidding me dance to the music. The puppets never tired, of course; and I suppose he thought I was like them.

Perhaps the Irish are so rich in the voice because twas the only thing the English could not take from them. It is why the Welsh sing.

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

I don't remember where we first played 'Black Sabbath' , but I can sure as hell remember the audience's reaction: all the girls ran out of the venue, screaming.

No record mogul had created Black Sabbath , so no record mogul could tell Black Sabbath what to do.

I don't have anything bad to say about the guy they hired to replace me, Ronnie James Dio, who'd previously been with Rainbow . He's a great singer. Then again, he ain't me, and I ain't him. So I just wish they'd called the band Black Sabbath II .