Music Is Quotes - Page 40

• Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Music, Imagination, Doe

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1852). “The Optimist: A Series of Essays”, p.61

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• How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a purely lyrical process. It is a musical confession of the soul, which unburdens itself through sounds just as a lyric poet expresses himself through poetry...As the poet Heine said, 'Where words leave off, music begins.'

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Music, Writing, Soul

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• Good music is good music and that should be enough for anybody.

  Bradley Nowell

  Enough, Should

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

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• I learned in the last few years that it's really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on something as arbitrary as record sale and critical acclaim and the interests of the public. All of those things are so fickle. So my approach now to music is I want to make records that I love, and I hope that other people love them, then that's OK.

  Moby

  Years, People, Unhappy

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• Folk music is not so much a body of art as it is a process, an attitude, and a way of life; its distinguishing features lie not within the songs themselves, but in the relations of those songs to a folk culture.

  Sam Hinton

  Song, Art, Attitude

  "The Singer of Folk Songs and His Conscience". Western Folklore, p. 170 - 173, July 1955.

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• Music is for sharing with people.

  The Irresistible Force

  People

  "Looking for the Perfect Beat: The Art and Culture of the DJ". Book by Kurt B. Reighley, 2000.

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• My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction... The music is what saved me. That's the only thing I can trust.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Hurt, Addiction, Bulimia

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

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• Music is a solace for me now. As I age, contrary to common sense, I am more and more drawn into it and apt to spend more of my waking and some of my sleeping hours thinking about it, or just feeling about it. It is my escape.

  Mark Heard

  Sleep, Thinking, Common Sense

  "A Musician's Diary". Essay by Mark Heard. "Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of IMAGE". Book by Gregory Wolfe, 2009.

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  The evolution of the music is what allows it to survive.

  Eric Church

  Evolution

  "Who the hell is Eric Church?". Interview with Bill DeYoung, www.connectsavannah.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.

  Laurence Equilbey

  Strong, Thinking, Enough

  "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Lydia Perović, logger.believermag.com. August 1, 2013.

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• "Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Natural

  Interview with Amy Kaufman, www.thewrap.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Rock and roll by its nature is sexual. So girls playing rock and roll is saying to the world, "We own our sexuality." I think that pop music is sort of about "you can do what you want to me" kind of energy, while rock and roll is "I'm going to do what I want to you" kind of energy.

  Joan Jett

  Girl, Thinking, Rock And Roll

  "Interview: Joan Jett and Kenny Laguna". Interview with Mark Huddle, www.verbicidemagazine.com. June 11, 2007.

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• Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.

  Tyler Perry

  Helping, Emotion

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 14, 2012.

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• I still prefer to hear [Bob] Dylan acoustic, some of his electric songs are absolutely great. Electric music is the vernacular of the second half of the twentieth century, to use my father's old term.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Father, Use

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• I think country music is about honesty. Any art has to have honesty to start with, as the core of it. I mean, they're just going to manipulate you in one way or the other, but there has to honesty at the core of it.

  Tim McGraw

  Country, Art, Honesty

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I think country music is really one of the biggest genres of music out there and one the most successful genres.

  Tim McGraw

  Country, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• My touring isn't about collecting souvenirs and always being on the go. My souvenirs are writing in my journal and creating new music, because that fits easily into my backpack when I'm travelling around the world. It's something that I can share later with fans or with future family members.

  Jason Mraz

  Writing, Creating, World

  Source: www.student-weekly.com

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• I understand that music is a business, but for people who have control of their stuff, like little Taylor and other artists, I think you'll find them standing up for their music every chance they get.

  Garth Brooks

  Artist, Thinking, People

  "Garth Brooks interview: The country icon on Nashville, GhostTunes and his Portland shows". Interview with David Greenwald, www.oregonlive.com. March 6, 2015.

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• I don't really like approach music to become famous. I've actually consciously made the decision that I'm just going to do music because I love it.

  Taryn Manning

  Decision, Made, Approach

  "Taryn Manning Talks Boomkat, Britney & Jealous Ex Boyfriends". Complex Interview, uk.complex.com. April 8, 2009.

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• I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting.

  Carrie Underwood

  Country, Talent, Songwriting

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• I made my first mix tape when I was 14. I used to play basketball and ride bikes, but I think I just latched onto music because I figured I could be really good at it on my own.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Basketball, Thinking, Play

  "Being Wiz Khalifa is rather easy these days". Interview with Allison Stewart, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 18, 2012.

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• Music is a really powerful way for me to catalyze all kinds of things. It's always been the cure. Through music, I've healed all the wounds I've had and celebrated all the good things in life. Through music, I turn things, good or bad, into energy.

  Juanes

  Powerful, Things In Life, Way

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• Tim Price is truly blessed - he plays music because he loves it.

  Charles Lloyd

  Blessed, Play

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• I've done a lot of movies that don't have any music in them, and I've always sort of had a kind of wary attitude about music because it can be so manipulative, and also because with pop music, I feel like everybody kind of has their own relationship to songs.

  Joe Swanberg

  Song, Attitude, Done

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• My music is evidence of my souls will to live.

  Charles Mingus

  Soul, Evidence, Will To Live

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