Quotes About Music

Justin Timber-guy

When did anger, however, ever teach someone to play music or pilot a ship?

Life is a piece of music, and you're supposed to be dancing.

A college friend once explained that the difference Neil Young and Crazy Horse and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band was that the former made you feel as if they were really no better than you are, while the latter somehow convinces you that you can be as great as they are.

When modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the state always change with them. —Plato

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

there are men who regret that we cannot hear our Handel exactly as Handel meant us to because, unfortunately, we no longer castrate boy singers

what there of is of jazz at its best is heavy stuff: it is small, but made of uranium

His sexual movements were smoother than warm butter, creative, musical, and right away he became a conductor who directed the performance and moans of his one-woman orchestra with his dick. I sang like a choir.

Kandinsky argued that, like music, art need not represent objects: the sublime aspects of the human spirit and soul can only be expressed through abstraction. Just as music moves the heart of the listener, so form and color in painting should move the heart of the beholder.

She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.

Some people, were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people, dance.

Swinging London had swung right by without stopping.

Vous jouez à ravir parce que vous vous abandonnez. Vous consentez à la musique, ainsi que vous consentez à l'amour. Vous voilà capable d'épouser chaque instant, chaque note, chaque inflexion. Vous cessez de vous raidir, vous ne filtrez plus.

plus je peinais, plus je prenais conscience de mon souffle, de mon timbre, de la durée des notes, de l'inflexion des phrases, des accents, des tenues, des retenues, des ornements et des appoggiatures.

Êtes-vous polythéiste, monsieur ? — Pardon ? — Moi je suis monothéiste. Je n'aime qu'un compositeur : Chopin. Je possède la conviction de n'avoir été envoyée sur terre que pour jouer et écouter Chopin.

En déchiffrant la Berceuse, mes doigts révélaient du velouté, de la rondeur ; le son naissait et mourait, ductile, facile ; rien ne me coûtait.

Nothing that comes through synthesizrs can fix you, or give you your fix. Nothing here.

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.

I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home.

I love Adele, I want her to be my best friend. She could come to the U.S., live with me and sing to me every morning.

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

Peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music.