Quotes About Music

Aveva desiderato eccitazioni, città, musica, gente, idee. Ora il desiderio di quelle cose l'aveva abbandonata, e non riusciva a comprendere come le avesse tanto agognate. Le sembrò che la pace fosse tutto quello che un essere umano avrebbe dovuto chiedere.

Emperor Concerto, a stirring tune, appropriately

Does one ever play Coltrane for the uninitiated without subconsciously hoping for the worst?

And sometimes, as you sing, you cannot help feeling that the unheard echoes and tunes forgotten are echoes of other voices and tunes of other singers...in that kind of world.

And the redwinged blackbirds sing in the budding greengage plumtree.

Christian faith is fact, but not bare fact; it is poetry, but not imagination. Like the arch which grows stronger precisely by dint of the weight you place upon it, so the story of the Gospels bears, with reassuring strength, the devotion of the centuries to Jesus as the Christ. What is music, asked Walt Whitman, but what awakens within you when you listen to the instrument? And Jesus is the music of the reality of God, and faith is what awakens when we hearken.ls

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.

We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.

Radio helps DJs break into a whole different audience. Radio has so much power. And that's my mission: to not only break into the EDM audience, but to break also into the mainstream audience.

Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.

I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.

Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.

Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.

At the root of all power and motion, at the burning center of existence itself, there is music and rhythm.

I can take about an hour on the tower of power, as long as I gets a little golden shower.

...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person's opinion about it.

Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.