Music Quotes - Page 20

• I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.

  Wes Montgomery

  Funny, Guitar, Practice

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• Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

  Samuel Johnson

  Humorous, Thinking, Noise

  Quoted in The Morning Chronicle, 1816.

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• External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.

  Yusef Lateef

  Jazz, Instruments, Extensions

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• We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption.

  Marvin Minsky

  Art, People, Details

  "Music, Mind, and Meaning". Computer Music Journal, Vol. 5, Number 3, web.media.mit.edu. Fall 1981.

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• Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

  Ornette Coleman

  Memorable, Night, Playing Jazz

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• There are notes between notes, you know.

  Sarah Vaughan

  Jazz, Notes, Knows

  The Los Angeles Times Interview, 1969.

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• Everything you ever had, everything you ever lost. It's all there in the trumpet--pain and hate and trouble and peace and quiet and love.

  Ann Petry

  Pain, Hate, And Love

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• All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not soloism--we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Lonely, Art, Sky

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”

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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

  Heart, Men, Sacred

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

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• All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

  Louis Armstrong

  Funny, Song, Horse

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 7 July 1971

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• All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

  Jean Cocteau

  Feelings, Mysterious, Motivated

  "Le Coq et l'Arlequin". Essay by Jean Cocteau, 1918.

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• Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Magic, Bedtime

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• There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

  Ronnie Wood

  Running, Kind, Knows

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• Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Children, Passion

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

  Gabriel Marcel

  Math, Scent, Aroma

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• Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

  Michael Torke

  Funny, Listening, Waste

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• Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Knowledge, World, Entrances

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

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• Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end,
  full of new paths to discover,
  where mystery remains eternal

  Pierre Boulez

  Discovery, Labyrinth, Path

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• As worship leaders we might use music as a tool, but music is only ever just that - a tool with which to encourage lives to be renewed and awakened to God.

  Reuben Morgan

  Encouraging, God, Might Use

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• People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.

  Cab Calloway

  Mind, Ordinary, Jazz

  "Of Minnie the Moocher and Me".

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• Music is given of God to further his purposes. Sweet melodies mellow the souls of men and help prepare them for the gospel. After men receive the truth, songs of praise to Deity help to sanctify and cleanse their souls.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Song, Sweet, Men

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• And in their motions harmony divine
  So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear
  Listens delighted.

  John Milton

  Ears, Tone, Harmony

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 620

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• Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Jazz, Emotion

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• One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Jazz, Reason, Process

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• I try to use my music to move these people to act.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Moving, People, Trying

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