Quotes About Music

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.

The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.

When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice -- and many voices have to be suggested.

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

God likes to be played like a piano.

El tango se impone como la música argentina por excelencia. Ya no pertenece al tugurio ni a los salones exclusivos. Es de todos. Se escucha en los cafés y en los cinematógrafos y se baila en los clubes al compás de las orquestas típicas. A partir de la grabación de 'Mi noche triste' (1917), de Castriota y Contursi, en la voz de Carlos Gardel, se produce un punto de inflexión en la historia de la música popular rioplatense.

En su época podías ser de Chopin o de Frank Sinatra, pero no de ambos; de Manzanero o de los Rolling Stones, de la nueva trova cubana o del rock ácido, pero no podías ser de todos. Los tiempos habían cambiado para mejor.

A belly laugh A toy from your childhood Your favorite song from high school The number 222 A beach ball A senior citizen in a fashionable hat A smile from a baby A billboard with a message for you

Rock stars are like prophets. There's something about somebody who can get up on a stage and sing. And then when they write you songs, forget it, okay?

A child sings before it speaks, dances almost before it walks. Music is in our hearts from the beginning.

Making love with you is even more wonderful than making music." He drew her closer. "Och, Sarah, you _are_ my music.

She missed his voice, the music he played on his guitar, the sound of his laughter. And sex. yes, she missed that, too. Having the evenings and weekends free to whatever she wanted--something she had once cherished about being single--wasn't nearly as satisfying as doing those things with Javier. But that's what it meant to love a military man.

They danced slow circles in the sand, Javier singing the words to the Spanish version of the song, the melancholy music putting a strange ache in his chest, an ache he saw reflected in her eyes. Was she feeling what he was feeling?

Rock and roll is the blues with a mania.

November 18. . . I dig musicians, I feel they have the most to offer me mentally and emotionally because they think basically along the same lines that I do; extremely creative people. Music is Life. As Captain Beefheart once said 'God is a perfect musical note.

Jimi Hendrix often spoke about being a messenger. His hope was that his music might somehow pierce our hearts and heal our souls. He finally did go so far out that he couldn't find his way back in, but he did us all a huge favor—he left his music with us.

I'm really proud of the vocal moments I found in that music. This soundtrack was insane—Rob Zombie, Guns N' Roses, Shawn "Clown" Crahan from Slipknot. We had so much fun on the set. Lots of fun memories.

Vous faites de la musique, Monsieur. Vous n'êtes pas musicien.

Primo Levi laid bare the oldest function assigned to music. Music, he writes, was felt to be a "malediction." It was a "hypnosis of continuous rhythm that annihilates thought and numbs pain.

Por qué la música es capaz de ir al fondo del dolor? Porque es allí donde ella mora.

Quand je tire mon archet, c'est un petit morceau de mon cœur vivant que je déchire. Ce que je fais, ce n'est que la discipline d'une vie où aucun jour n'est férié. J'accomplis mon destin.

Croyez-vous qu'il n'y ait pas de souffrance à être du vent ? Quelquefois ce vent porte jusqu'à nous des bribes de musique. Quelquefois la lumière porte jusqu'à vos regards des morceaux de nos apparences.

Seguía escrupulosamente los horarios de las Bolsas y las variaciones del Mercado de Valores. Así entretenía mis insominos. Era bastante asocial. La música me emocionaba. Era lo único que distraía la tristeza y los sedimentos de los días y su recuerdo.