Music Is Quotes - Page 38

• Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.

  William C. Bryant

  Music, Entertainment, Study

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• Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, May, Language

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.34, Convergent Books

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• Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Religious, Indulge In

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• Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Heart, Evil

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• there are two kinds of music - good music and bad music. Good music is music that I want to hear. Bad music is music that I don't want to hear.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Two, Want, Kind

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.148, Vintage

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• Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is because it was not tampered with by white people. It was not on the media. It was not anywhere except where black people were. And it is one of the art forms in which black people decided what is good in it. Nobody told them. What surfaced and what floated to the top, were the giants and the best.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Media, Class

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• Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

  George Santayana

  Music, Useless, Life Is

  'The Life of Reason' (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4

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• Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.

  Charles Kingsley

  Music, Heart, Men

  Charles Kingsley (1873). “Selections from Some of the Writings of the Rev. C. Kingsley, M.A.”, p.35

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• Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.

  Wallace Stevens

  Poetry, Achieve, Objectives

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.318, Vintage

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• Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer.

  Dolly Parton

  Music, Doors, Addiction

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• Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. Its far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, its not a big stretch from hymns.

  Kaskade

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Hymns

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• Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.

  Rebecca West

  Music, Tragedy, Sound

  Rebecca West (2010). “Family Memories: An Autobiographical Journey”, p.171, Open Road Media

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• music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

  Rebecca West

  Music, Effort, Heaven

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• Music is another planet.

  Alphonse Daudet

  Music, Planets

  Alphonse Daudet, Ernest Daudet, Léon Daudet (1900). “The Works of Alphonse Daudet”

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• [On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Believe, Belief, Founders

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• Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music, Moving, Order

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• If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Art, States

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• Music is a big gift opportunity.We have to have our best offers disposed to capitalize on that.

  Tom Corson

  Opportunity, Bigs, Offers

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me.

  Steve Martin

  Half, Way, Comedy

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Country music is different because we [musicians] are all actually happy for each other. We're all friends. It's a little family. So if you don't win [an award], usually one of your friends does. So it's kind of a cool thing. I think it's the only genre of music to have that camaraderie.

  Miranda Lambert

  Country, Thinking, Winning

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• It's always a challenge to hit the stage running, with Kansas' music, because it's demanding from the very first note, so we try to be up to the task and keep our pre-show routine pretty much focused on the music.

  Phil Ehart

  Running, Kansas, Challenges

  "We are Rich Williams and Phil Ehart from the band Kansas - AUA". Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com.

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• Not everyone's going to like my music. People might not like my music, because I'm just not their style of music that they like to listen to.

  Justin Bieber

  People, Style, Might

  "Interview: Justin Bieber Talks About His Top 5 Rappers, Selena Gomez, and Growing Up In The Game". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I like that gathering moment where the music is about to begin, that moment right there. It's like jumping out of an airplane. It's that moment when the lights go out and then you're in it.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Airplane, Jumping, Light

  "Get Back to That Place: Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins Talks Touring Again and Why He Adores Tove Lo". Interview with Kelli Bender, people.com. June 30, 2015.

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• I'm intrigued on how music is made, that's how I started getting into it. Of course I've been in the booth before, just joking around to see how it is, and I'll make a couple of beats here or there and help my artists out. But other that, I'll stick to listening.

  Kevin Durant

  Couple, Artist, Listening

  "Interview: Kevin Durant Talks Lil B Challenge, Mac Miller, and Chris Bosh". Interview with Donnie Kwak, www.complex.com. February 10, 2011.

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• My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.

  Kanye West

  Song, Rocks, Giving

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