Quotes About Music

The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.

It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.

Music touches the soul, it stirs passion, it moves us and can make us better people. It's no coincidence that 2000 years ago a famous Roman politician, Cato the Younger, warned that soldiers shouldn't listen to music because it would make them unfit to wage war!

Love is the language that we all share at a global level, the emotion that motivates our whole lives. For me, music is more my preferred source of consolation and inner richness. It's a tool for opening up our hearts and minds, helping us to overcome difficulties and instilling trust and positivity.

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.

and I wonder if Beethoven held his breath the first time his fingers touched the keys the same way a soldier holds his breath the first time his finger clicks the trigger. We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.

Es ist immer dasselbe. Die Titanic sinkt, aber das Orchester spielt weiter, [...]Nur das es diesmal überhaut keine Rettungsboote gibt.

As the concert goers left the hall, the music of the end of the world still ringing in their ears, they filed out past children dressed in their Hitler Youth uniforms who had been assigned to helpfully hold out baskets filled with cyanide capsules for the crowd.

Our ancestors had fought and murdered one another, married and forged alliances, founded countries. At their best - but only for selfish reasons - they patronized art, literature, and music. But their worlds had to be overthrown by revolutions, because there was room in them only for themselves.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.

The land of the 45rpm record is the land of chaos.

But Jordan's violin was especially deadly. It screeched like a frightened owl. Mr. Graisha glared at her, snapping his baton up and down, side to side, fighting to keep all twenty-three students playing in unison. It was a losing battle. He glanced up at the clock and then waved both arms as if he needed to stop a freight train.

I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.

People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.

If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.

He also liked to root around in sales and street markets, and picked up a violin in London, on Farringdon Road, for which he took some lessons.

They were bound together by a common love of a certain kind of music, physical beauty, and style—all the things one shouldn't throw away an ounce of energy pursuing, and sometimes throw away a life pursuing.

Coming from Chicago, Lollapalooza is the one weekend of the summer when actual Chicagoans are kept out.