Music Quotes - Page 23

• Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.

  Hoagy Carmichael

  Zoos, Inmates, Band

  Hoagy Carmichael, Stephen Longstreet (1999). “The Stardust Road & Sometimes I Wonder: The Autobiography of Hoagy Carmichael”

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• If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

  Count Basie

  Night, Play, Sound

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• I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

  Ron Carter

  Halloween, Responsibility, Sound

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• Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

  Thomas Beecham

  Men, Lasts, Deaf

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• It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

  James Weldon Johnson

  May, Characteristics, Jazz And Blues

  James Weldon Johnson “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

  J. K. Rowling

  Magic, Magic Harry Potter, Harry Potter

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• Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Lying, Compulsion

  'Arcades' (1645) l. 68

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• I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.

  Pat Metheny

  Worry, Principles, Too Much

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• If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.

  Domenico Cieri

  Funny, Imports, Ifs

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• What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C.... The often welcome melodic lie.... The soul's undersong. The orchestration of randomness, a flirtation with the boundaries of silence and space.... a reminder that the self wants to disappear, be taken away from itself and returned.

  Stephen Dunn

  Lying, Taken, Space

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• The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

  Arthur Honegger

  Funny, Humor, Demand

  1951 I Am a Composer.

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• Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Healthy, Sound

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2886, Delphi Classics

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• ...the elephant smoked too much.

  Victor Borge

  Elephants, Too Much

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• Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.

  Tipper Gore

  Rocks, Talking, Talking To Someone

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• Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Guitar, Jazz, Masters

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• Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

  Billy Gibbons

  Feelings, Sound, Finesse

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

  John Cage

  Meaningful, Organization, Piano

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

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• Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

  Jacques Attali

  Today, Establishment, Repetition

  Jacques Attali (1985). “Noise: The Political Economy of Music”, p.5, Manchester University Press

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• When music is presented which, however appropriate for other occasions, does not fit the Sabbath, much is lost. . . . The Spirit does not ratify speech nor confirm music which lacks spiritual substance.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Spiritual, Doe, Substance

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• The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles of the Gospel, and in promoting peace and spiritual growth.

  Heber J. Grant

  Spiritual, Powerful, Servant Of God

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• The singing of the songs of Zion, though imperfectly, with the inspiration of God, will touch the hearts of the honest more effectively than if sung well without the Spirit of God.

  Heber J. Grant

  Song, Inspiration, Heart

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• The singing of hymns and the rendition of selections from the great sacred oratorios by ward choirs all enhance the spirit of worship.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Church Choir, Hymns, Singing

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• I am comforted by the assurance that there will be beautiful music in heaven, and for that I am most grateful.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Beautiful, Grateful, Heaven

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• There come to one's soul heavenly thoughts as he joins in heavenly expressions coupled with heavenly melody.

  David B. Haight

  Expression, Soul, Melody

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• The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

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