Quotes About Music

And like Elvis, they are relying on the one commodity that endures after the voice is no longer quite the same, the moves have grown rusty, and the inspiration no longer flows quite as readily. That is the audience's deep, surprising love for the music they made in the past.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army.

Tis not solely in poetry and music, we must follow low our taste and sentiment, but likewise in philosophy (Hume, 1739, p. 153).

There are many important things in life worth worrying about. There are even some aspects of music that warrant thoughtful consideration from conscientious musicians. If we take the research seriously, chordal-tone doubling is not one of them.

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

How much of our lives take place in the elusive spaces of this world—how much is conveyed, like the artistry of the master musician, in the silence between the notes?

This country has no indigenous art that requires this level of skill. When classical music is transposed to our society we understand its purpose to be playing in a band or orchestra and we equate its complexity and sophistication to jazz. This is at best naive, at worst a perversion. A

Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches.

But the take from February 7, 1956 is the one we know today: Gonna-TELL-Aunt-MARy-'BOUT-Uncle-JOHN! That's the backbeat entering American popular music.

Robbie Robertson of the Band said he always knew when they were playing in the south, because that's where everybody claps on the backbeat. Exactly.

I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It is actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba.

You stand for nothing. You respect nobody. The music you dance to is devoid of beauty, its lyrics empty of humor or cleverness.

She saw more melody in a differential equation than in a piece by Beethoven.

L'invisibilità è la qualità fondamentale di un voltapagine: in scena, egli deve cercare di cancellare il più possibile la sua presenza, dando l'impressione che le pagine si voltino da sole. Il voltapagine ha il raro privilegio di sentire un pianista quasi come sente se stesso: sentire il suo canto sommesso, i gemiti che di quando in quando gli sfuggono tra i denti, lo schiocco sordo delle unghie contro i tasti. E non solo sentirlo, ma vederlo; studiarlo.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

How like a winter has been my hard spring away from you, my harp. --Psalm

The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.

Words his soul danced to.

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.

God made Blues right after he made woman.

In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE.