Music Quotes - Page 21

• The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, House, Literature

  1925 Letter to Isaac Goldberg.

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• You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

  Charlie Parker

  Faith, Practice, Jazz

  "Acting Is a Job: Real-life Lessons About the Acting Business". Book by Jason Pugatch, p. 73, 2006.

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• I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Real, Thinking, Long

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• All music is beautiful.

  Billy Strayhorn

  Beautiful, Jazz, Music Love

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• Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

  Taylor Swift

  Light, Shining, Would Be

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• Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Humorous, People

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• Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Love You, Nerves

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.266, Wordsworth Editions

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• Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

  Elvis Costello

  Stupid, Writing, Dancing

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• The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Cities, Piano, Forever

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Gareth and Lynette' (1872) l. 272

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• I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Ideas, Should Have

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

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• If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

  Sydney Smith

  Earth, Rapture, Ifs

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• It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line

  Duke Ellington

  Lying, Tin Pan Alley, Lines

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

  Josephine Baker

  Sky, Earth, Jazz

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• I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

  Martin Luther

  Hate, Men, Evil

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• I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Way, Jazz

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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

  Useless, Life Is, Utility

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

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• There are all kinds of mix tapes. There is always a reason to make one.

  Rob Sheffield

  Tape, Kind, Reason

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.17, Crown Archetype

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• Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

  John Coltrane

  Wish, Firsts, Jazz

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• Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Order, Divergent, Chaos

  Yehudi Menuhin (1972). “Theme and Variations”, New York : Stein and Day

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• We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Spiritual, Art, Able

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• A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Teacher, Silence, Gains

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• If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

  Robert Fripp

  Jazz, Audience, Ifs

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• Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

  George Foreman

  Sports, People, Appreciate

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• The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.

  Elvis Presley

  Way, Fame, Humans

  "Elvis Culture : Fans, Faith, & Image" by Erika Lee Doss, (p. 218), 1999.

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• The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living, flying free.

  John McLeod

  Song, Fall, Joy

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