Quotes About Music

Le son est souvent plus important que le sens.

Et pourquoi le violoncelle ? - Parce que c'est l'instrument qui ressemble le plus à la voix humaine.

Je baptise l'avion Pégase. La musique de Liszt a multiplié ma joie par mille. J'ai vingt-trois ans et je n'ai encore rien trouvé de ce que je cherchais. C'est pour ça que la vie me plaît. Il est bon, à vingt-trois ans, de ne pas avoir découvert son chemin.

Mi fa orrore la musica di sottofondo, innanzitutto perché non esiste cosa più volgare, e poi perché le melodie più belle possono entrare in testa con tale insistenza da trasformarsi in canzonette. Non esiste l'amore di sottofondo, la letteratura di sottofondo, il pensiero di sottofondo: esiste il rumore di fondo, che è una cosa orribile, un veleno.

As she went on with her labour, she became aware that she had Schubert's Erl-King going around in her head. It wasn't the ideal music for the job. Normally, Pannonique programmed her brain to play symphonies that have her the energy indispensable for such physical labour-Saint-Saens, Dvorak-but now that heart-rending Lied stuck in her skull and sapped her strength.

You want to fuck the singer, but you would suck on any of them. A rim job, a piss shower, wouldn't matter. The band plays in nothing but tube socks hung over their cocks and sacks. They can make the socks swing like giant tittie tassels. You've never seen anything so sexy.

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

Success was one of my weakest points. I was so ill-prepared for it. I never appreciated within myself the gift of success. I never accepted it. People gave me so much momentum and love, and people really got my music, but I didn't accept it. That's probably one of my biggest regrets.

I'm a useless guitar-player. When I put myself in a band I immediately became its weakest part. I was like my forehand volley at tennis.

I like songs. It's a weakness that I have.

The kind of music I'm dealing with is more a long-term music. Sometimes a little discourage runs along on your thought, but I am here to push it back. Discourage is a sign of weakness, and I don't like to be weak.

There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.

Most of the time, when you are in the studio, you are revealing yourself; you're a bit naked. You can express your weaknesses, your awkward way of approaching sound. Sharing these intimate moments is like inviting somebody into your private room.

Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.

After you've practiced for an hour or so, turn down the lights and record yourself playing. Improvise and go nuts, then playback what you've recorded and listen for your strengths and weaknesses.

Music has given me great solace in my times of hardship. It has also brought me fame and wealth, and I owe everything to music.

Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it.

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.

I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.

I walked around the music industry for a bunch of years, right? I saw a lot of rich people. I didn't see wealthy. I got into the tech industry, I see wealthy every day.

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

It feels like being in a band is a luxury now: like you can only do it if you're signed really early or you come from a wealthy family.