Music Is Quotes - Page 13

• Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.

  Don DeLillo

  World, Way, Dangerous

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Great Jones Street”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

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• Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.

  Joshua Homme

  Smile, Queens, Dark

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• The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

  Jose Bergamin

  Noise, Firsts, Conditions

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• Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.

  Brenda Ueland

  Writing, Thinking, Drawing

  Brenda Ueland (1980). “Me”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Writing music is my therapy. It’s very purifying!

  Amy Lee

  Writing, Purifying, Therapy

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• We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.

  Saul Williams

  Different, Different Relationships

  "Hip-hop's poet laureate speaks out". Interview with Tyson Wheatley, edition.cnn.com. January 17, 2005.

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• I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

  Coco Lee

  Listening, Sound, Taiwan

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• We are drowning in a sea of Myspace, blather, and too much information. Music is everywhere and nowhere. The independent record store is the solution, a place staffed by friendly (or not) people who are actually paid to weed through this crap and help you find the good stuff.

  Dean Wareham

  Weed, Independent, Sea

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• Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.

  Milan Kundera

  Water, Dying, Radio

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• Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.

  Yanni

  Emotional, Color, Creating

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• We all have music in us - your heartbeat is your drum, your voice is your sound - and music is supposed to put you in tune with nature.

  Randy Weston

  Sound And Music, Voice, Tunes

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• Country music is always changing but the Opry is always there to serve as a lighthouse for what country music really is. The past, present and future is all encompassed by not only the physical structure of the building but also the radio show.

  Dierks Bentley

  Country, Past, Radio

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• Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Reading, Brain, Listening

  Interview with Aaron Burgess, www.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.

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• A lot of artists are used to their music being reused online and have come to accept and embrace it. You have a generation who go on YouTube and remake and remix music online all the time. They remake and upload songs and videos, and then other people remake the remakes; it just keeps going.

  Girl Talk

  Song, Artist, People

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• The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

  Pierre Schaeffer

  Exercise, Variation, Mystery

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• They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.

  Justin Guarini

  Math, Missing, Important

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• So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Player, Bass, Facts

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• Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

  Morton Feldman

  Memories, Structure, Primitive

  Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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• When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Philosophy, Eye, Thinking

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• Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

  Richard Wagner

  Heart, Thinking, Speech

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• Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness amidst all the bitterness that we encounter here.

  Marin Mersenne

  Encounters, Ears, Littles

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• Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.

  Ziggy Marley

  Causes, Reggae, Easy

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

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• I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

  John Coltrane

  Thinking, People, Patterns

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• However in countries outside of Japan I think game music is still a potential growth market that has not yet developed to the extent that we are seeing in Japan.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Country, Thinking, Japan

  Interview with Spence D. with Peer Schneider and Jeremy Dunham, www.ign.com. July 14, 2004.

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• Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

  Boethius

  Aggravation, Behavior, Degrade

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