Music Is Quotes - Page 29

• A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.

  Charles Rosen

  Art, Decision, Attention

  Charles Rosen (2002). “Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Beautiful, Christian, Heart

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• To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.

  Archie Shepp

  Play, Numbers, People

  "A Dialogue with Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.archieshepp.net. December 10, 1990.

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• The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

  Bill Haley

  Writing, Easy, Acceptable

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• Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.

  Ian MacKaye

  People, Community, Playing Music

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• Music is half the film.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Half, Film

  "Director Matthew Vaughn talks Layer Cake and X-Men 3". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. May 10, 2005.

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• My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.

  Meredith Monk

  Imagine, Form, Intricate

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• Never understood a lot about the world... music is one of the only things that makes any sense.

  Austin Carlile

  World, Understood, World Music

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• If anyone takes me seriously then they actually must have a problem .. Music is fun its not algebra.

  Diplo

  Fun, Problem, Algebra

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• Tejano music is a very relaxing style and it reminds me of home.

  Selena

  Home, Style

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

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• The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.

  Pablo Casals

  Music, Important, Notes

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• The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.

  Ernie Isley

  People, Greek, Bakers

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• Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to.

  Victoria Legrand

  Knows

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• I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

  Johnny Otis

  America, Would Be, Culture

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• I think that Yes' music is kind of on its own out there, and it goes through different chapters, and that involves different people. I don't think it's a case of 'any year is better than any other.' They can all co-exist quite comfortably.

  Geoff Downes

  Thinking, Years, People

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• For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

  Iris DeMent

  Long, People, Trying

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• It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

  Orlando Gibbons

  Proportion, Whole, Universe

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• When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

  Aaron McGruder

  Important, Scare, News

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• I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

  Mary Timony

  Rocks, Derivatives, Boring

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• What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.

  Narada Michael Walden

  Song, Powerful, Gone

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• Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

  Peter Warlock

  Modern, Significance, Bad Music

  Peter Warlock (1998). “The Occasional Writings of Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock): Early music”

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• Music is the fragrance of the universe.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Music, Fragrance, Universe

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• Every work is completely different. Sometimes the music is first, sometimes it's parallel, and sometimes the music is after. There's no rule. Music goes differently to your emotions. With music you can create different spaces and feelings easier than you can with the visual - maybe not easier, but in a way, it's more seductive.

  Pipilotti Rist

  Space, Seductive, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The mall is good for hearing new music because you hear music everywhere. I like to walk around the mall and hear what the kids are listening to, or what's the feel of Middle America, cause that's what the mall is.

  Ester Dean

  Kids, America, Listening

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think innately knew that music draws people together and that good music is liked by almost everybody.

  Willie Nelson

  Thinking, People, Together

  Source: www.pbs.org

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