Quotes About Music

Francesca was feeling good feelings, old feelings, poetry and music feelings.

I just stand here, about twilight, makin' that ol' horn weep, and I play that tune for a man named Robert Kincaid and a woman he called Francesca.

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.

realities that kept the music silent, the dreams in a box.

If I could go through it all again,the slender iron rungs of growing up,I would be as young as any,a child lostin unreality and loud music.

Now for me, music is indeed a spiritual experience. It may be hypnotizing or violently stimulating. I listen to and appreciate all kinds of music, from folk, to jazz, to classical, to hard core rock.

humming a few bars of vintage Springsteen.

So, you never can tell what will happen when you learn to play the harmonica.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold; While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North Lights swept in bars?- Then you've a hunch was the music meant...hunger and night and the stars.

Something feels like it's missing when I haven't heard any music, and when I hear music, then I really feel like something is missing. That's the best I can do in trying to describe music.

What a terrible dream I had a few days ago. [...] To the knives and forks clung the tears of enemies I destroyed, and the glasses sang with the sighs of many poor people, but the tear-stains only made me want to laugh, while the hopeless sighs sounded to me like music. I needed banquet music and had it.

Mir fehlt etwas, wenn ich keine Musik höre, und wenn ich Musik höre, fehlt mir erst recht etwas. Dies ist das Beste, was ich über Musik zu sagen weiß.

She's as light as any fairy; she's as pretty as a peach; She's mistress of the witchcraft to beguile; There's sunshine in her manner, there is music in her speech, And there's concentrated honey in her smile.

But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory--disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man moves from confident inexperience through the bitterness of experience, toward the rueful wisdom of self-knowledge.

But even Wagner, with his magnificent music and his rather less worthy pseudo-medieval words, is never wholly successful. Why? Because a work of art must be in some measure coherent; but thought and feeling mingled, as all of us experience them, are surging and incoherent. Thought and feeling trimmed into coherence in a work of art are still far from reality, still far from the agonizing confusion that rises like miasma in what a great poet has called the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

He blew his nose resoundingly. B natural, said he, my cold drops more than a full tone every hour. Obviously I am dying.

If I tarted up in a nice suit and a clean collar, I could spend hours and hours every week jawing to Rotary Clubs about what fine music is and how I am just as good as they are. I'm not as good as they are, praise be God! I am a honest citizen, I am not fit to black their boots.

Thelonious Monk's music is essentially about freedom.

there were no bones in his body, only tunes, and no blood, but poetry.

Give a prayer of thanks for all you have. Work on your gratitude list. Listen to some great music. Watch the sun come up, or perhaps go for a quick walk in natural surroundings if you feel up to it.

When you feel down or weary, play some music.

Spring has passed, summer has gone and winter is here. And the song that i meant to sing remains unsung. I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument.

Tu entorno moldea realmente aquello que percibes, haces y te inspira. El arte alimenta mi alma. Los buenos libros blindan mi esperanza. Las conversaciones profundas aumentan mi creatividad. La música deliciosa eleva mi corazón. Las vistas hermosas fortalecen mi espíritu.