Music Quotes - Page 10

• The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Funny, Joy, Advertising

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• We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems.

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Life, Dream, Moon

  'Ode" l. 7 (1874)

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• Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  People, Locked Up, Stills

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• You are the music while the music lasts.

  T. S. Eliot

  Dope, Jazz And Life, Thyme

  Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 5 (1941)

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• Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

  Charlie Parker

  Motivational, Humorous, Play

  "Words of Wisdom". Book edited by William Safire and Leonard Safir, p. 435, 1990.

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• It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else remain forever unuttered and unutterable; it feeds that deep, ineradicable instinct within us of which all art is only the reverberated echo, that craving to express, through the medium of the senses, the spiritual and eternal realities which underlie them.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Spiritual, Art, Reality

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• My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

  Bob Marley

  Life, Fighting, Reggae

  Bob Marley (2012). “Listen to Bob Marley: The Man, the Music, the Revolution”, Open Road Media

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• Without Elvis none of us could have made it.

  Buddy Holly

  Redneck, Made, Made It

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• The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.

  Ralph Ellison

  Art, Failing, Circumstances

  Ralph Ellison (2003). “The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison”, Random House LLC

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• You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

  Miles Davis

  Men, Jazz, Should

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• Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

  Count Basie

  Funny, Way, Jazz

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• I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Cat, Glasses, Trying

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire”

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• If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

  Charles Darwin

  Mental Health, Week, Made

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

  Tom Waits

  Beautiful, Terrible, Songwriting

  "Tom Waits: A Raspy Voice Heads To The Hall Of Fame". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 21, 2002.

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• After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

  Martin Luther

  Giving, Honor, Next

  "Luther on Education in the Christian Home and School".

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• Music is the melody whose text is the world.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Wisdom, Philosophical, World

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.55, Publishdrive

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• I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Should Have, Want

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

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• Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

  Henri Rabaud

  Country, Museums, Piano

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• One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

  Thom Yorke

  Art, People, Interesting

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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• Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• By music minds an equal temper know,
  Nor swell too high, nor sink too low.
  . . . .
  Warriors she fires with animated sounds.
  Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.

  Alexander Pope

  Warrior, Fire, Mind

  Alexander Pope (1839). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice of the author”, p.15

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• Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Soul, Music Is, Refuge

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• There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music

  Robert Browning

  Men, Piano, Jazz And Life

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.357, Wildside Press LLC

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• [on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

  Billy Wilder

  Life, Sarcastic, Witty

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

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• A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

  Art Blakey

  Names, Jazz, Type

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