History Of Music Quotes

• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Sound And Music, Musical Life

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• You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing. To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.

  Jerry Garcia

  Cat, Past, Ideas

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• The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

  Milan Kundera

  Music, Guitar, Idiocy

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• You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

  John Lydon

  Moving, Past, Stuff

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• Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has a history that is more than a history of its formal evolution, our feelings must have a history too. Perhaps certain qualities of feeling that found expression in music can be recorded by being notated on paper, have become so remote that we can no longer inhabit them as feelings, can get a grasp of them only after long training in the history and philosophy of music, the philosophical history of music, the history of music as a history of the feeling soul.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Expression

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• Classical music and pop are two different universes, each with its own difficulties, peculiarities, depth and artistic dignity. In Italy, I think there is a fairly clear line of demarcation, but the history of music is full of fusion. Popular and classical music have always found points of contact, of crossing, exchange, both drawing mutual profit.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Thinking, Two, Different Universes

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• You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.

  Robert Schumann

  Vanity, Different, Pieces

  Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.20

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• The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.

  Frank Fairfield

  Art, Classical Music, Music Is

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• I had what can only be described as the worst voice in the history of music.

  Jimmy Pardo

  Voice, Worst

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A guy like Scott [Robinson] plays the whole history of music on every instrument you've ever heard of. He's just kind of an unparalleled genius.

  Jon Gordon

  Play, Guy, Genius

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• Though I know consciousness kind of boxes you in, it still encompasses the artists that I knew were conscious throughout history of music - they're the ones that you look at as the legends.

  Will Ferrell

  Artist, Looks, Legends

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

  Tom Stoppard

  Music, Mean, Two

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Tom Stoppard: plays”

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• Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it.

  Bill Wyman

  Fashion, People, Young

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• There are pieces that in the history of music that also make me cry. I'm not ashamed to cry.

  Charlemagne Palestine

  Pieces, Cry, Ashamed

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If it has to be put in a box, it's a country record. But it's hard to do that, because it is inspired and influenced by the history of music in two different people's backgrounds. I think the focal point for many is the harmonies, and I think that is what is special and unique about it.

  Jessica Harp

  Country, Unique, Thinking

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• I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music

  Smokey Robinson

  Musical, Events, Motown

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• Michael Jackson doesn't really belong on this planet. He's the most important figure in the history of music. He'll be remembered far longer than George Bush will. 200 years from now, people will be talking about Michael Jackson, and no one's going to mention George Bush.

  Brett Ratner

  Talking, Years, People

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• The incomparable Michael Jackson has made a bigger impact on music than any other artist in the history of music. He was magic. He was what we all strive to be. He will always be the King of Pop! Life is not about how many breaths you take, but about how many moments in life that take your breath away. For anyone who has ever seen, felt or heard his art, we are all honored to have been alive in this generation to experience the magic of Michael Jackson. I love you, Michael.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Art, Kings, Love You

  "Usher, Beyonce, More Pay Tribute To Michael Jackson" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. June 25, 2009.

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• The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.

  Ryan Tedder

  Band, Credible

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• There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation. Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso. Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance, range, and assimilation of the whole history of music.

  Leonard Cohen

  Houston, Singers, Might

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• The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of music....The point is not to hold up Beethoven as exceptionally monstrous. The Ninth Symphony is probably our most compelling articulation in music of the contradictory impulses that have organized patriarchal culture since the Enlightenment. Moreover, within the parameters of his own musical compositions, he may be heard as enacting a critique of narrative obligations that is...devestating.

  Susan McClary

  Symphony, Musical, Enlightenment

  "Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality". Book by Susan McClary, 1991.

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• I don't know anything about the history of music.

  Sia Furler

  Iwo Jima, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's the team that matters. Where would The Beatles be without Ringo. If John got Yoko to play drums the history of music would be completely different.

  Ricky Gervais

  Team, Play, Different

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