Quotes About Music

Night and day the streets resounded with music, song, and the clinking of chalices and tankards, for it is well known that nothing is such thirsty work as the acquisition of knowledge.

Coodcoodak, on his knees, was strangling Draig Bon-Dhu's bagpipes with his hands, while, with his head thrown back, he shouted over the monstrous sounds emerging from the bag, wailed and roared, cackled and croaked, bawled and squawked in a cacophony of sounds made by all known, unknown, domestic, wild and mythical animals.

Playing the bagpipes – as everyone knows – is the best remedy for depression

Pump up your bagpipes and delight our ears with decent martial music. With your permission, noble Calanthe!" "Oh mother of mine," whispered the queen to Geralt, raising her eyes to the vault for a moment in silent resignation. But she nodded her permission, smiling openly and kindly.

I can hear… music…" Dandelion suddenly sobbed. "It happens," said the witcher, looking at the arrowheads. "Don't worry. There's no shame in fear.

Songs and ballads"—the musician bowed—"never end, dear lady, because poetry is eternal and immortal, it knows no beginning, it knows no end—

To cap it all, someone hidden in the crowd was blowing a brass trumpet incessantly.

Meet. Dandelion, ask me where we got the meat. I won't because I know that joke. Don't be a swine. Where did you get the meat? Crawled here itself.

I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.

When I was in my early twenties, it seemed like everyone I knew – every male, I should say – read Bukowski. These men of my acquaintance listened to the Go-Betweens, drank Guinness from a straight glass and loved Bukowski like little girls love ponies.

It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

What are your main inspirations when drawing? The news, nature, other people, day-to-day events, music, sounds, art, everything is potentially inspirational. All you have to do is go outside, read a newspaper or watch contemporary television or movies. The cartoons write themselves! (2014 interview with iamhiphop)

I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.

Death is never more than a breath away from the act of playing music. Each note on a guitar represents a small curve: birth, life, and death-and then you start over.

at least once in my life make something that would go around the world, create a lick that guitarists everywhere would play, be number one in America, be heard at weddings, bar mitzvahs, births, funerals, be adapted into the repertoire of brass bands in the north of England, and make my mum and dad proud.

We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.

Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes. But I'm afraid if you look at a thing long enough; it loses all of its meaning

Doré mi sol así las olas y la espuma que en tu cuerpo canta, canta -más por tus senos que por tu garganta- do re mi sol la si la sol la si la.

And it was sad music fit to make you cut your throat.

I will tell you what she was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

What joy it is to dance and sing!

I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.