Music Quotes - Page 18

• We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Inspirational, Dream, Poetry

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• In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

  Robert Schumann

  Funny, Writing, Order

  "Dictionary of Humorous Quotations" edited by Evan Esar, (p. 156), 1949.

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  If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

  Louis Armstrong

  Jazz, Asks, Ifs

  "Jazz Giants of the 20th Century/ Taglines". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny, People, Feelings

  Quoted in Time, 29 Dec 1961.

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• Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

  Thomas Beecham

  Funny, Brass Bands, Miles

  “Readers recommend: best brass songs” by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2014.

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• Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Dance, Organization

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Years, Piano, Lazy

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• You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

  Bryan Ferry

  Silence, Quiet, Ferry

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• I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Kids, Naked, Born

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• A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Death, Winning, Memorial

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1859). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table ...”, p.355

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• Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

  Steve Lacy

  Heart, Play, Risk

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• The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Artist, Technology, Ipods

  "Ipod all the rage in high fashion" by Leander Kahney, www.wired.com. May 12, 2004.

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• When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Headstone, Exquisite

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Evangeline (Annotated Student's Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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• To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

  Nina Simone

  Mean, Play, White

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• May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.

  Frank Sinatra

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Voice

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• I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Twelve

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

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• Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.

  Tom Petty

  Time, Solitude, Mind

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• Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Humorous, Glasses

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• A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

  Mark Twain

  Play, Gentleman, Banjos

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• An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

  Edith Wharton

  Artist, Italian, Law

  The Age of Innocence ch. 1 (1920)

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• Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Musician, Knows

  Kurt Vonnegut, Lee Stringer (2011). “Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation about Writing”, p.42, Seven Stories Press

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• The only one who's got enough of me to break my heart.

  Taylor Swift

  Heart, Enough, Break

  Song: Teardrops On My Guitar, Album: Taylor Swift, 2008

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• Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.

  Suzanne Collins

  Bird, Peeta

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.394, Scholastic Inc.

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• The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL.

  Jennifer Egan

  Song, Real, Thinking

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• Life is but a dream for the dead.

  Gerard Way

  Dream, Life And Death, Life Is

  "Song: You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison (Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge)". June 8, 2004.

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