Quotes About Music

Jimi Hendrix selected one of her photos for the cover of Electric Ladyland.

But the experience was also fulfilling: Paul's new album had the variety that was his hallmark, with ballads and rockers, acoustic tracks, and high-energy electric cuts. But most importantly, where each of his post-Beatles releases had tracks that Paul knew were throwaways—throwaways that he liked, or that struck him as having a personality that earned them a place on an album, but throwaways all the same—Band on the Run had an energizing consistency, track for track.

Henry was right to observe that two players left Wings, and Paul hadn't asked why. But Paul hadn't asked why because he knew the answer. The dispute that led to McCullough's departure mirrored fights he'd had with Harrison over what to play and how to play it, as well as Lennon's complaint, in that painful Rolling Stone interview, about Paul treating them as sidemen. He was, once again, accused by his bandmates of being a control freak.

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

Frank Sinatra on the sound system. "Fly Me to the Moon.

Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph

who wept at the romance of the streets with their pushcarts full of onions and bad music, who sat in boxes breathing in the darkness under the bridge, and rose up to build harpsichords in their lofts

The world knows the love that's in its breast as in the flower, the suffering lonely world. — Allen Ginsberg, from "Transcription of Organ Music," Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Books, 1994)

The most important thing about dreams is the existence in them of magical emotions, to which waking consciousness is not ordinarily sentient. Awe of vast constructions; familiar eternal halls of buildings; sexual intensity in rapport; deathly music; grief awakenings, perfected lodgings.

Zemlinsky, who was to be on the panel of judges, played through the first few for Schoenberg and, finding them "wonderful and truly original," agreed with him that, regrettably, "precisely on that account they would have little chance of winning the prize." Schoenberg's response was not to abandon the project but to expand it.

the fantasy, power, songfulness, beauty, and humor of the music itself has been not so much overlooked as rendered secondary to the discussion of it by experts. Instead of his reputation's creating curiosity about his work, his work has been buried by (and beneath) his reputation.

The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.

Without the fingerprint of the heart, it would only be sound... not music.

Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.

CLARIONET, n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet—two clarionets.

Phonograph - An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.

The devil had not only acquired a monopoly of the good music and the good fun, but has of late acquired a controlling interest in the good writing.

You play the violin like an angel. Play it; play something light and lively. Get this cursed bad business off your mind.

He selected some music and thought that he would dance, but he failed. Instead he turned up the music until it smothered the sound of the dead woman weeping in his heart.

Clover strolled past, shaking his head. What a waste. Waste of people, waste of things, waste of effort. But that was war for you. Nothing he hadn't seen a dozen times before. If the Great Wolf wanted to decorate his new land with corpses and have creaking ropes for music, then who was he to complain?

There was dancing. Or at least well-meaning clomping in the presence of music if not directly related to it.

Moshing, for most of them, is a celebration of the moment, of the sad fact that it is only a moment.

I remember how much rock and roll music can hurt. It can be so free and sexy when you are not.

1. Helping students get clear on the intention they want to create in their future; 2. Programing their conscious mind, as well as their unconscious mind, into that new future; 3. Changing their brain and body to biologically look like the future has already happened; 4. Repeatedly associating those pictures and images with music to create new neural networks in the brain and to emotionally recondition the body to a new mind. It's a way for them to remember their future.