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Quotes About Music

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?
~ Lara St. John
Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.
~ Plato
Develop your talent, man, and leave the world something. Records are really gifts from people. To think that an artist would love you enough to share his music with anyone is a beautiful thing
~ Duane Allman
Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
~ Dmitri Shostakovich
I usually have an idea that I want to build on and let the music take me where I wanna go.
~ Rick Ross
I'm not trying to play the guitar. I'm trying to play music.
~ Michael Hedges
One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It's because we're different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.
~ Tommy Emmanuel
I enjoy the videos with the sound off, where you can look at the belly buttons and everything. Really some pretty girls, but I don't know about the music.
~ Merle Haggard
The art of Mime encompasses all the feelings of the soul. The Dance, on the other hand, is essentially an expression of joy, a desire to follow the rhythms of the music.
~ August Bournonville
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
~ Maya Angelou
Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.
~ Taylor Swift
A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.
~ Thelonious Monk
There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
~ Barry White
Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.
~ Eric Carle
I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.
~ George Balanchine
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.
~ Johann Sebastian Bach
I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.
~ Claude Debussy
The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.
~ Pete Townshend
On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
As worship leaders we might use music as a tool, but music is only ever just that - a tool with which to encourage lives to be renewed and awakened to God.
~ Reuben Morgan
To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!
~ Louis Armstrong
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
~ Frank Zappa
You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.
~ Stan Getz