Music Is Quotes - Page 34

• You gotta be, like, a professional hippie. You need to make music because you love it.

  Nick Littlemore

  Hippie, Needs

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• Music is about giving and about searching and so that is the spirit....because without spirit, music is just notes.

  Steve Turre

  Giving, Spirit, Notes

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• Music isn’t just music, it’s therapy.

  Steve Garrigan

  Therapy

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• I don't try to hide sex in my music. Music is very sexual. I don't hide it.

  Rick James

  Sex, Trying

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Apr 27, 2015

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• I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.

  Robbie Robertson

  Thinking, Great Music, Made

  "Singer-songwriter-guitarist Robbie Robertson". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 16, 2013.

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• Some music is supposed to be disposable; that's OK. A lot of music is fun for today, but it isn't supposed to be timeless; it's supposed to be trendy.

  Robbie Robertson

  Fun, Today, Timeless

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• Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

  Aldous Huxley

  Ocean, Lakes, Ponds

  "TIME" Magazine, December 1957.

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• Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.

  Charles Ives

  Men, Way

  Newsletter, Institute for Studies in American Music, XXI, November 1, 1991.

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• And yet shall Love himself be heard,Though long deferred, though long deferred:O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:Music is Love in search of a word.

  Sidney Lanier

  Long, Waste, Modern

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.70, University of Georgia Press

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• The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.

  Gloria Estefan

  Lasts, Wanted

  "iTunes Originals: Gloria Estefan". iTunes Interview, itunes.apple.com. June 5, 2007.

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• The music is one of the beautiful things that has survived the Castro regime. I have played for audiences all over the world but I've never played for a Cuban audience. For [husband] Emilio and me, the music is the one tie to our homeland.

  Gloria Estefan

  Beautiful, Husband, Ties

  "Estefan: Cuba won't be free until Fidel dead". "Boston Herald" Newspaper, March 12, 2008.

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• The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

  Gloria Estefan

  Beautiful, Beautiful Things

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• Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

  Pierre Boulez

  Musician, Needs, Useless

  "Éventuellement... (Possibly...)". Essay by Pierre Boulez (1952) published in his book "Stocktakings from an Apprenticeship" (p. 133), 1991.

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• [Concerning the Water Ouzel, now called American Dipper:] In a general way his music is that of the streams refined and spiritualized. The deep booming notes of the falls are in it, the trills of rapids, the gurgling of margin eddies, the low whispering of level reaches, and the sweet tinkle of separate drops oozing from the ends of mosses and falling into tranquil pools.

  John Muir

  Sweet, Fall, Water

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• Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the latter it awakens the higher nature and works an effect, though but a transitory effect, of a beneficial kind. But the primary purpose of music is neither instruction nor culture but pleasure; and this is an all-sufficient purpose.

  Herbert Spencer

  Feelings, Doe, Culture

  Herbert Spencer (1910). “Works”

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• My music is not lovely.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Lovely

  "Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius". Book by Detlev Claussen, Harvard University Press, p. 387, "Art and the Arts", 2009.

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• It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies... I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.

  Warren Zevon

  Popular Music, Happened, Supposed To Be

  "My Lunch with Warren Zevon" by David Bowman, Salon.com, March 17, 2000.

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• Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.

  John Calvin

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  "Geneva Psalter". Book by John Calvin, 1539.

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• To encourage children into Rock Music is to place them into the white hot arms of Molech and the beat and power behind the music will drown out the cries of your child as occultic powers consume him and drag him into the fires of hell!

  Ray Comfort

  Children, Fire, Rocks

  "The Pit of Hell!: Unbelievable Satanic Deception Flooding the Earth!". Book by Ray Comfort, 1983.

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• The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

  Morton Feldman

  Perfection, Tragedy

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

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• It's remarkable how a soundtrack can be so important to the storytelling and the experience. I think the music is going to make people see the movie a lot. The music is going to make you want to go see it again. You have so much fun in the movie, and it's music that you want to share with your kids, anyway.

  Vin Diesel

  Fun, Kids, Thinking

  "Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Michael Rooker, Benicio Del Toro, Vin Diesel and James Gunn Talk GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 18, 2014.

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• One of my favorite songs I've ever done is "Who Says," and I was 17 when I recorded that song. It was just so exactly what I felt, during that time. That's when I knew how powerful music is.

  Selena Gomez

  Song, Powerful, Done

  "Selena Gomez Talks RUDDERLESS, Sympathizing with the Character, HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2, Where Her Career Is Headed, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 18, 2014.

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• The older you get, the more you have to talk about, and music is a really good outlet. I've chilled on it a little bit, and I can't wait to see what I'm going to step into, now that I have this collection of things.

  Selena Gomez

  Waiting, Littles, Steps

  "Selena Gomez Talks RUDDERLESS, Sympathizing with the Character, HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2, Where Her Career Is Headed, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 18, 2014.

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• Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning.

  Drake Doremus

  Emotional, Narrative, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.

  Kate Bush

  Fashion, Thinking, Trends

  Interview with Paul Iorio, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2014.

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