Quotes About Music

Slowly the bluish spring moon climbs the houses, sliding up the minarets into the clicking palm-trees, and with it the city seems to uncurl like some hibernating animal dug out of its winter earth, to stretch and begin to drink in the music of the three-day festival.

I long to be musical in body and mind. I want style, consort. Not the little mental squirts as if through the ticker-tape of the mind.

Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing... Oh my God! Ooh... Wow... You can see colors through music. Anything!

If there's one thing I really love... it's sad music.

The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.

When you are happy, you enjoy music, when you are sad, you understand lyrics

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.

The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.

I like to listen to sad music when I'm sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.

It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world.

With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.

A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.

There are happy blues, sad blues, lonesome blues, red-hot blues, mad blues, and loving blues. Blues is a testimony to the fullness of life.

I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

The still, sad music of humanity.

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me

Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

I'd rather sing a sad song than eat.

Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't say what it is

But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

That's the beauty of music, art, and video games: forget about your worries for a few minutes; it shouldn't add to them or make you feel worried or sad: it should make you feel good.

People think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.