Music Is Quotes - Page 21

• I think the reason I've been able to keep making music is because I'm not married, I don't have kids.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Kids, Thinking, Able

  "Omnivore: Hatfield’s Quiet Farewell?". Boston Magazine Interview, www.bostonmagazine.com. January 27, 2010.

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• Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Struggle, Impact, People

  "Pop Quiz: Juliana Hatfield". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. September 21, 2008.

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• Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable.

  Carl Nielsen

  Music Is Life

  '4th Symphony' ('The Inextinguishable', 1916) preface

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• Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.

  David Boies

  Napster, Vicarious, Infringement

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• For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.

  Steve Kazee

  Song, Passion, Writing

  "THE LEADING MEN: Steve Kazee, the Traveling Heart of Broadway's Once". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. March 17, 2012.

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• I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Music, God

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• Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.

  Bill Walton

  Inspiration, Reflection, Soul

  "Bill Walton Is Talkin' With TJ". Interview with Tom James, www.nba.com.

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• As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.

  John Dryden

  Music, Harmony, Notes

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• Music. – There is something very wonderful in music. Words are wonderful enough: but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words do: it speaks straight to our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls. Music soothes us, stirs us up; it puts noble feelings into us; it melts us to tears, we know not how: – it is a language by itself, just as perfect, in its way, as speech, as words; just as divine, just as blessed.

  Charles Kingsley

  Music, Blessed, Heart

  "The Good News of God".

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• The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Past, Notes

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.19

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• We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for them. Something that doesn't speak or talk like a human being, that doesn't know its definition in the dictionary or its theory in the schools, that expresses itself simply by the fact of its vibrations. People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.

  John Cage

  Music, School, Two

  "Autobiographical Statement". www.johncage.org. April 1990.

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• Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their emancipation. Tomorrow, with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom. At the present stage of revolution, a healthy lawlessness is warranted. Experiment must necessarily be carried on by hitting anything-tin pans, rice bowls, iron pipes-anything we can lay our hands on. Not only hitting, but rubbing, scraping, making sound in every possible way...What we can't do ourselves will be done by machines which we will invent.

  John Cage

  Music, Fighting, Hands

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• In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

  Ken Burns

  Film Music, Amplify, Want

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• Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Art, Believe

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

  Robert Fripp

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• No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

  Edith Hamilton

  Beautiful, Effort, Facts

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• If we are in tune with Nature, all her music can find a way into the heart. When bird music is rare, their occasional songs are precious to the ear.

  Frank Bolles

  Song, Nature, Heart

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• Country music belongs to America.

  Bill Monroe

  Country, America, Rock N Roll

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• I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life.

  George Eastman

  Nice, Believe, Thinking

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• Music is the eye of the ear.

  Thomas Draxe

  Music, Eye, Ears

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• I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.

  Nicholson Baker

  Song, Writing, College

  "Four Protest Songs". www.newyorker.com. October 8, 2012.

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• Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.

  Bryan Adams

  Jobs, Thinking, Joy

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• Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.

  Alan Lightman

  Children, Cutting, Emotional

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• It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.

  Vince Gill

  Country, Records, Great Success

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• This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

  Vince Gill

  Country, Real, Records

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