Quotes About Music

I have been listening to the cats in the courtyard. They are all singing Rossini. It is obvious that cats have declined as badly as composers. Domenico Scarlatti owned one which would actually stroll across the keyboard and pick out passable subjects for fugue. But that was a Spanish cat of the Enlightenment. It appreciated counterpoint. Nowadays all cats appreciate are coloratura. Like the rest of the Public.

God was singing through this little man to all the world.

Oh, you monster!No one exists but you, do they? You and your music!

Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect. Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.

One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again be quite so 'easy' as they had been.

The final new elements in music making (as opposed to listening, considered in the next section) were introduced by Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826). Weber had a diseased hip and walked with a limp but he was a virtuoso of the guitar and an excellent singer, until he damaged his voice by accidentally drinking a glass of nitric acid.

The static's nice. I could do without the screeching." "Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful . Like old jazz.

IF I CAN BUT MAKE THE WORDS AWAKE THE FEELING. —Ian Anderson, Stand Up

The exquisite world of imagination opened up by any powerful music is itself problematic, for it tempts listeners to put into words the feelings it arouses in them and so to visualise a composer's priorities and even personality. There must be few people who have played, sung, listened to or written about Bach's music who do not feel they have a special understanding of him, a private connection, unique to themselves, but ultimately coming from their idea of what music is and does.

When people sing together, community is created. Together we rejoice, we celebrate, we mourn and we comfort each other. Through music, we reach each other's hearts and souls. Music allows us to find a connection. - Peter Yarrow

The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.

People hate a break-up, but they love a break-up song.

not being able to read music is absolutely liberating for me. It gives me a wider musical vocabulary. There

Well, shall we play Phil the song first?" No one says that.

In the Air Tonight" is 99.9 percent sung spontaneously, the words dreamt up from out of nowhere

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.