Quotes About Music

I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things.

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

Prague is far more than the sum of its physical parts or its history. It is a city of the mind and the imagination, a city that exists as vividly in poetry and painting and music and legend as it does in brick and stone... Just as the physical city of Prague would be unimaginable without its unique topography, without its palaces, its churches, its parks, its streets, and its hostelries, so the Prague of the mind would be unimaginable without its storytellers and the tales they weave.

Pythagoras felt that specific notes affected people to very minute gradations of feeling. And every songwriter, I think, knows that D is a great key for a long song. It just happens to work. And B flat is always a great jump key for jazz. ~ Janis Ian

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

Or that Isaac Porter bit his nails like a man playing a mouth organ?

All her stories seemed to involve rowboats and ukuleles, full moons and campfires and grog. I was desperately jealous.

It was august. for years it was august … . there was heat like wet gauze and a high, white sky and music coming from everywhere at once.

The accordion and the whores and the retching,' he said. 'That's our music.

Before I was even halfway up the steep ridge, I heard the ngoma. Drums set the air vibrating and rang through the ground under my feet as if something were tunnelling powerfully in every direction at once.

The tuba was a golden blur. The horn player seemed to be winking at me. And then there were the other partnered girls sailing by us in silk dresses, gardenias tucked like stars into their hair.

I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.

Violists hate it when we violinists crack viola jokes.

He knew that he did not play music so much as walk into it, as if into a palace of great riches, with rooms opening into other rooms, which opened into still other rooms, and in these rooms were courtyards and fountains with passageways to yet more mysterious spaces of melody

sang as she walked because it was better than weeping.

He knew that he did not play music so much as walk into it, as if into a palace of great riches, with rooms opening into other rooms, which opened into still other rooms, and in these rooms were courtyards and fountains with passageways to yet more mysterious spaces of melody, peculiar intervals, unheard notes.

Music is clean, clear, its rules are forever, another country for the mind to go to, and so this search for employment among the drinking places of Galveston did not bother him. To Simon, the world of musical structures was far more real than the shoddy saloons in which he had to play. Nothing could match it, nothing in this day-to-day world could ever come up to it. It existed outside him. It was better than he was. He was always on foot in that world, an explorer in busted shoes.

My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

When Blue sang, a lyric became a libation; a song became a sacrament.

Di a los ojos que su música concierten con la voz; porque es forzoso que desdiga y que disuene tan destemplado instrumento, que ajustar y medir quiere la falsedad de quien dice,

I went into the house. I put on Jimi Hendrix's 'Red House' at full volume, filled the glass to the brim with rum, without ice, and went back to the terrace. To gaze at the night and the dark sea and the night.

Entendí que prefería tocar bien el ukelele que seguir tocando mal la guitarra, y eso fue como una nueva filosofía personal. Si no podés con la vida, probá con la vidita.

La guitarra siempre me quedó grande, me sonaban sucios los acordes, demasiadas cuerdas para tener en cuenta, demasiadas notas en ese puente. Para un autodidacta, para el que toca de oído como yo, el ukelele es ideal. Entendí que prefería tocar bien el ukelele que seguir tocando mal la guitarra, y eso fue como una nueva filosofía personal. Si no podés con la vida, probá con la vidita.