Quotes About Music

Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed in this hidden truth the way other men believed in God or love, believed that truth was in fact always hidden, that the apparent, the overt, was invariably a kind of lie.

We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.

In the home of this music, alas, religious fanatics have lately started killing the musicians. They think the music is an insult to god, who gave us voices but does not wish us to sing, who gave us free will, rai, but prefers us not to be free.

Ormus liked to compose his own songs up on the flat roof of the apartment block, and spent eternities up there, lost within himself, searching for the points at which his inner life intersected the life of the greater world outside, and calling those points of intersection songs.

Who am I? Let's put it this way: who has the best tunes?

The old man heard the music of the imperialists issuing from the golden hotel, heavy with the gaiety of despair...

Sing against death. Command the wildness of the city.

The thing about sports movies is, they can't help but feel epic - putting music to images, etc.

Don't be sharp or flat; just be natural.

Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for

I am totally involved with music, but my goal is to do the sports thing.

There were only two things you did in New York City, Queens to be exact, music or sports.

When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.

In 10 years, I'm gonna be all over. I'll still be doing mad music, I'll be doing a couple movies, maybe some TV. Hopefully coaching some of my son's sports teams and be in heavy daddy mode.

Rock 'n' roll is a participatory sport. It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock 'n' roll and dance and have fun.

Let us sing even when we do not feel like it, for in this way we give wings to heavy feet and turn weariness into strength.

To follow in Beethoven's footsteps transcends one's strength.

When you are behind bars with no hope of release, you need to find strength wherever you can. Personally, I found strength in Michael Jackson.

People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes.

Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.

My strength has always been slow songs, so I never deviated from that, I always took care of my base and that's just doing slow songs and just pouring out my heart in songs.

Berlin's great secret is that he says exactly what he means; sometimes he hits a gigantic line both musically and lyrically -- almost Wagnerian in its strength.

I have certainly faced my fair share and will likely come across more. These experiences have been fuel for my music. Facing these challenges has forced me to recognize my own inner strength.

I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.