Quotes About Music

Oh, Tongue, give sound to joy and sing Of hope and promise on dragonwing

Harper, your song has a sorrowful sound, Though the tune was written as gay. Your voice is sad and your hands are slow And your eye meeting mine turns away.

By playing happy or sad music, displaying different emotionally moving photographs, or giving different kinds of feedback to participants during a taxing task, researchers can manipulate participants' affective responses. This proves the variability of affective states in response to constantly changing surroundings and social interactions. Of course classrooms are rife with changing conditions that influence students' affective states.

Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears it for the first time

These scenes,' said Valancourt, at length, 'soften the heart, like the notes of sweet music, and inspire that delicious melancholy which no person, who had felt it once, would resign for the gayest pleasures. They waken our best and purest feelings, disposing us to benevolence, pity, and friendship. Those whom I love — I always seem to love more in such an hour as this.' His voice trembled, and he paused.

I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.

It was ordained. Just as the fates deal out the plague with a tarot card. Just as the Supreme Being drills holes in our skulls to let the Boston Symphony through.

Depuis des années, je tourne autour de cet événement de ma vie. Lire dans un roman le récit d'un avortement me plonge dans un saisissement sans images ni pensées, comme si les mots se changeaient instantanément en sensation violente. De la même façon, entendre par hasard La javanaise, J'ai la mémoire qui flanche, n'importe quelle chanson qui m'a accompagnée durant cette période, me bouleverse.

Lire dans un roman le récit d'un avortement me plonge dans un saisissement sans images ni pensées, comme si les mots se changeaient instantanément en sensation violente. De la même façon, entendre par hasard La javanaise, J'ai la mémoire qui flanche, n'importe quelle chanson qui m'a accompagnée durant cette période, me bouleverse.

Tout ce qui se chantait en anglais était nimbé d'une mystérieuse beauté. Dream, love, heart, des mots purs, sans usage pratique, qui donnaient le sentiment d'un au-delà.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

He would have enough money...for a family that would fill his house with beautiful music and the silence of good books.

Hope is grief's best music.

I wanted to be a professional drummer.

People in the music industry are very professional and helpful. I really felt encouraged at every point because I met good people and got inspiration from them.

Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.

I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.

I never believed - or knew for sure - if I would be able to make a professional life in music. But it turned out that way.