Music Is Quotes - Page 35

• Music is a reflection of who you are, and if those things that you mentioned are what your music is all about, then I guess that's who you are.

  Lil Wayne

  Reflection, Ifs, Who You Are

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich and Paris Hilton, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2011.

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• I get all these loser preps coming up to me asking for autographs and all this crap, and I really want to tell them, 'My music is not for people like you!

  Avril Lavigne

  People, Asking, Want

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• The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Sound, Peculiar, Classical Music

  Edgar Wilson Nye's stand-up line, 1888.

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• Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.

  Sun Ra

  Spiritual, Materials

  Sun Ra, Hartmut Geerken (2005). “The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose”, p.250, BoD – Books on Demand

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• To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance only by the miracle of a kind of internal logic, an innate sense of proportion.

  Arthur Honegger

  Wall, Writing, Miracle

  1951 I Am a Composer.

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• Music is geometry in time.

  Arthur Honegger

  Geometry

  "I am a Composer". Book by Arthur Honegger, 1951.

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• Since I'm doing so much science, I think the reason these ideas have occurred to me and not to other people in music is simply the influence that science plays in my life: working in laboratories, thinking of models, hypothesis, putting things together, trying to make sense of it all and so forth.

  Dave Soldier

  Thinking, Play, Ideas

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• My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love. When the gentle fingers of Music knock at the door of our feelings, they awaken memories that have long lain hidden in the depths of the Past. The sad strains of Music bring us mournful recollections; and her quiet strains bring us joyful memories. The sound of strings makes us weep at the departure of a dear one, or makes us smile at the peace God has bestowed upon us.

  Khalil Gibran

  Memories, Past, Doors

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• What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other and where 'the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere'? The mythologies of the occult seem like baroque music: there is an overall similar quality of sound and movement, but, upon examination, each piece of music is unique; Vivaldi and Scarlatti are similar and different.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Unique, Unity, Quality

  William Irwin Thompson (1990). “At the Edge of History”, SteinerBooks

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• Obviously music is my first job.

  Alesha Dixon

  Jobs, Firsts

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• Music is one of those things that brings great joy to people, singing is a sort of unifier of people, no matter what political place or original place you come from.

  Brian Viglione

  People, Joy, Political

  OndaRock Interview, June 01, 2006.

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• The music is just like Detroit, a complete mistake. It's like George Clinton and Kraftwerk are stuck in an elevator with only a sequencer to keep them company.

  Derrick May

  Mistake, Detroit, Clinton

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• An ex-girlfriend once got upset when I told her that music is the most important thing in my life. It's more important than anyone else could ever be. I don't want to be overly dramatic and say it's the only thing that gets me up and keeps me going. But people in your life come and go. As you go through your life, you make friendships, you break friendships, you have relationships. Music is the one thing I've always been able to rely on.

  Ben Gibbard

  Girlfriend, People, Upset

  "The Meaning Of Life". www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.

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• Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Mirrors, Musical

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• Music is a spiritual doorway. ...
  Its power comes from the fact that
  It plugs directly into the soul.

  Peter Gabriel

  Spiritual, Soul, Doorways

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• The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

  John Cage

  Silence, Sound, Integrating

  Pierre Boulez, Jean-Jacques Nattiez, John Cage, Robert Samuels (1995). “The Boulez-Cage Correspondence”, p.38, Cambridge University Press

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• You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.

  Aaron Copland

  Powerful, Book, Reading

  Aaron Copland (2011). “What to Listen For in Music”, p.23, Penguin

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• Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Powerless

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• I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Would Be, Needs, Audience

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• The music is used as a backdrop. I take the kundalini and I play against the notes with it. I do a light show inwardly and outwardly with the vortexes of energy as you sit there. It's no big deal. It's just what I do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Play, Energy

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• Zazen's music is composed in other dimensions and it is played by some of my students. I go through the music they have played with my aura and wash out anything impure.

  Frederick Lenz

  Auras, Rama, Dimensions

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• Music is part of the tantra, the dance of life. Before your eyes, before your awareness, is the procession of eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Eye, Awareness

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• Music is so powerful to me. I had my IPod and headphones, and my sad playlist. I kind of ventured off for just a little bit to get into the scene.

  Beverley Mitchell

  Powerful, Ipods, Littles

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• When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing.

  Patty Duke

  Kind, Imagine, Scene

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• I am aware that most people only see me as Shaq... the guy on the court. But there is another side to who I am, Shaquille O'Neal. And Shaquille O'Neal wants to explore every part of life. He wants the opportunity to pursue all of his desires. That includes being a part of the music industry as an MC. Music is and will always be a part of who I am.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Opportunity, Who I Am

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