Quotes About Music

No one was a match for Ronnie Hawkins. Garth's parents gave their blessing, and he became a Hawk. Ronnie paid Garth his customary salary, but the clincher was that the rest of us had to pay Garth ten dollars a week for music lessons. We were thrilled that Garth was finally in the group, but in quiet moments we wondered: Did we just get scammed?

I'm a born entertainer, when I open the fridge and the light comes on, I burst into song.

scat to rock steady

New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning.

Anything too stupid to be spoken," he asserted, "is sung.

Existe algún mecanismo aplicable en toda clase de contextos del que puedan echar mano las entidades para provocar este tipo de comportamientos sincronizados y condicionar así a los distintos integrantes del grupo hacia los objetivos grupales? Pues sí. Se trata de la música.

Because I love you," I said. "Because you are in my life like the music at the edge of silence.

The young lady laughed merrily--a melodious ripple of sound. I have heard women's laughter compared to the tinkle of silver bells, but to that musical tintinnabulation was now added something so deliciously human and girlish that the whole effect was nothing short of enchanting.

Life is not all glided out to the measures of a Strauss waltz.

So the Eucharist -- in its sumptuous liturgical setting, surrounded by music, art, the word of God, and the prayer of the community -- does more than sustain the divine life in us. It delights us, as a foretaste of the heavenly banquet.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!

The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.

Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.

Out came the children running. All the little boys and girls, With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls, And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls, Tripping and skipping, ran merrily after The wonderful music with shouting and laughter.

And out of the houses the rats came tumbling.Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats,Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats.Grave old plodders, gay young friskers,Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins,Cocking tails and pricking whiskers,Families by tens and dozens,Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives—Followed the Piper for their lives.

While you sat and played toccatas, stately at the clavichord.

There is no truer truth obtainable By Man than comes of music.

The C Major of this life.

The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard,The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky,Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept

Who hears music, feels his solitude Peopled at once.