Quotes About Music

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

True love is singing karaoke 'under pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.

I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based in dance. The relationship between me, the camera and the actor is always a dance.

My number one goal ... is to preserve the music industry. The only answer is the Internet. ...none of the systems are more effective than having a personal relationship with my fans via the Internet.

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship to music, sometimes it needs to have all three and become a video projection.

So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.

John was closest of all to Paul; their relationship was very complex.

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

Why buy vinyl when he could keep all his music on a device that fit in his pocket?

There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

As a practical guide, music you can carry on a conversation over is safe. If you have to shout over the noise, it's too loud.

He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.

O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear.

How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,Like softest music to attending ears!

And the vile squealing of the wry-neck'd fife.

Warble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing.

Orpheus with his lute made trees,And the mountain-tops that freeze,Bow themselves, when he did sing.