Music Is Quotes - Page 10

• Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear.

  Oscar Peterson

  Long, Clubs, Jazz

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• The mystery of sound is mysticism; the harmony of life is religion. The knowledge of vibrations is metaphysics, the analysis of atoms is science, and their harmonious grouping is art. The rhythm of form is poetry, and the rhythm of sound is music. This shows that music is the art of arts and the science of allsciences; and it contains the fountain of all knowledge within itself.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Art, Analysis, Vibrations

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Mysticism of Sound, Music, The Power of the Word, Cosmic Language”, Library of Alexandria

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• I feel I must fight for [my music], because I want women to turn their minds to big and difficult jobs; not just to go on hugging the shore, afraid to put out to sea.

  Ethel Smyth

  Jobs, Fighting, Sea

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• There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound.

  Kate Mosse

  Writing, Echoes, Mind

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• If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

  Joe Perry

  Bored, Trying, Albums

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• But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that, you're gonna find a lot of issues coming up.

  Kurt Loder

  Passion, Thinking, Issues

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• A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It’s kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.

  Marcus Mumford

  Heart, Air, People

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• Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven.

  Milton Babbitt

  Littles, Language, Said

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• At the piano, I'm able to communicate in a way that is very intimate and direct. My approach at music is a bit like talking to a friend. You don't have to be very complicated when you speak. If you say what's in your heart, it's usually very simple.

  David Lanz

  Heart, Simple, Talking

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• I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.

  Tom Cochrane

  Heart, Kids, Letters

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• The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.

  Michael Feinstein

  Air, Legacy, Today

  "The memory of Gershwin prompts host of albums". www.cnn.com. November 05, 1998.

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• My music is about the journey, about love and the human experience.

  Wynonna Judd

  Journey, Human Experience, Humans

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• A lot of times I have the song inside of me and I have to fight to get it out. I'm a very visual person, so I can see the song but I can't hear it. But I think that if your music becomes a war for it to happen, in the end there's a certain kind of aggression in the music. And I think that's a lot more interesting.

  Zola Jesus

  Song, War, Writing

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• The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin.

  Jessie Andrews

  People, Age, Violin

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• All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.

  Loretta Lynn

  Country, Art, People

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• Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one and from this marriage to that divorce, from a beating here to a beating there.

  Ben Mink

  Country, Art, Moving

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• Lights are to drama what music is to the lyrics of a song. The greatest part of my success in the theatre I attribute to my feeling for colors, translated into effects of light.

  David Belasco

  Song, Drama, Light

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• The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.

  Ben Harper

  Ideas, Ties, Stronger

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• Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.

  Jamie Murphy

  Children, Chess, Nursery

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• Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

  Martin Freeman

  Creativity, Clothes, People

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

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• I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.

  Maya Beiser

  Creativity, Want, Possibility

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• Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

  James Huneker

  Music, Piano, Brandy

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• Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated.

  John Barbirolli

  Music, Three, Raspberries

  Of modern music. Quoted in M Kennedy Barbirolli, Conductor Laureate (1971).

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• I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything.

  Carrot Top

  Fun, Kissing, Thinking

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• The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form from the comparison of things one with another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf; it is neither good nor bad.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Gratitude, Thinking, Quality

  Baruch Spinoza “Ethics”, Lulu.com

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