Music Is Quotes - Page 12

• Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

  Robert Quine

  Reading, Hateful, Mathematics

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• I'm willing to go wherever with this because music is everything to me. This is my world and how I see it. My music speaks for me in a way that's relatable and truthful.

  Luke James

  World, Way, Truthful

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• I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting.

  Jane Siberry

  Rocks, Watches, Acoustic Music

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• Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

  Jane Siberry

  Law, Musical, Training

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• Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

  Jane Siberry

  Powerful, Book, Self

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• I want to buy my mom a house; I want my family to never have to worry about anything. And I just want to have an amazing career in music, because I love to do it.

  Ashthon Jones

  Mom, Careers, Worry

  Interview with reporters during a media conference call, idol.blogs.pressdemocrat.com. March 11, 2011.

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• Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.

  Roy Ayers

  Artist, Records, Contracts

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• Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.

  Jean Sibelius

  Beautiful, Hands, Together

  Jean Sibelius' remarks quoted by Jalmari Finne to Anna Sarlin, June 28, 1905.

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• Music is love searching for a word.

  Sidney Lanier

  Searching For Love

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• Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music,
  and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.

  Sidney Lanier

  Heart, Names, Needs

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.23, University of Georgia Press

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• I think the fact that Napster is stealing recorded music is something that we have to stop. It's taking money out of my kid's mouth. That is the way I look at it. It's inherently wrong. It's stealing.

  Art Alexakis

  Kids, Thinking, Looks

  "Does Napster Allow Theft on a Grand Scale or Just Innocent Swapping?". "Crossfire" with Tucker Carlson, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2001.

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• The only other style of music that attempts to go to the deeper place of the silence that is music is New Age music.

  John Michael Talbot

  Silence, Style, Age

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• Jonas' music is inspiring, energizing, and spiritually uplifting. A brilliant songwriter, he writes music that reaches deep into the soul and awakens the best and highest in all of us. And Jonas delivers his songs with a power, joy, and grace that last long after the last note is played. The world needs this music!

  Marci Shimoff

  Uplifting, Song, Writing

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• I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

  Simon Van Booy

  Thinking, Faces, Language

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.15, Oneworld Publications

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• The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

  Norman Granz

  Knowing, Hearing, Jazz

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• The idea that rhythm is intrinsically human — not just primitive — that we all have hearts that beat at a steady rate and don't stop...reminds me of life itself. In that sense my music is like certain popular music where the rhythm drives from beginning to end.

  Michael Torke

  Heart, Ideas, Beats

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• I once said to a boy, ‘You’re a really good kisser,’ and he said, ‘You’re only as good as the person you’re kissing.' I think it’s the same with the music. If someone [says], ‘Your music is really provocative,’ I’m only as provocative as the person that’s listening to it.

  FKA twigs

  Kissing, Boys, Thinking

  "FKA Twigs Is a Woman of Mystery -- And She Likes It That Way" by Devon Maloney, www.billboard.com. August 18, 2014.

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• My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

  Anna Kamienska

  Silence, Speech, Layers

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• It's like if the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts.

  Nic Sheff

  Able, Enough, Loud

  Nic Sheff (2009). “Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate

  Ray Charles

  Blank, Chalk, Blackboard

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• The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

  Ned Rorem

  Art, Speak, Hardest

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard

  John Cage

  My Favorite, Heard, Favorite Music

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• Music is a spiritual thing, you don't play with music. If you play with music you will die young. You see, because when the higher forces give you the gift of music...musicians hip, it must be well used for the gift of humanity.

  Fela Kuti

  Spiritual, Play, Giving

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• You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever.

  George Strait

  Country, Forever, Knows

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• For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

  Robert Schumann

  Language, Permit, Converses

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