Music Quotes - Page 25

• Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

  Bono

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Pops

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• Even if the world ends, the Music will still survive...

  Ustad Bismillah Khan

  World, Ends, Stills

  "Great Muslims of undivided India" by Nikhat Ekbal, Gyan Publishing House, (p. 45), 2009.

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• I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

  B. B. King

  Workout, Black, Rays

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• Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Prayer, Children, Companion

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• Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.

  Marion Woodman

  Inspirational, Dream, Listening

  "Jungian Analysis, Eating Disorders and the ‘Great Work’". Interview with Pythia Peay, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

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• In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!

  Elvis Presley

  Sick, Wells, This Day

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• The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.

  Pablo Casals

  Art, Giving, Pay

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• Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Angel, Jazz And Life

  Thomas Carlyle (1888). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished (first Time, 1839; Final, 1869)”

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• Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

  Henry Miller

  Beauty, Beautiful, Life And Love

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• One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It’s because we’re different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.

  Tommy Emmanuel

  Beautiful, Guitar, Next Day

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• I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

  Samuel Barber

  Football, Destiny, Play

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

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• Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics. Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water. Change surroundings and take long journeys. Strictly avoid frightening ideas. Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements. Listen to music.

  Aulus Cornelius Celsus

  Fitness, Running, Drinking

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• A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

  Glenn Miller

  Personality, Sound, Band

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• Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in any other language. If we do not want these things to remain dead treasures, we must do our utmost to make the greatest possible number of people understand their idiom.

  Zoltan Kodaly

  Inspirational, Numbers, People

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• If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

  Arturo Toscanini

  Play, Want, Irony

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• In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility and grandeur to the highest degree; it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst. Directed by the will of the master, the trombones can chant like a choir of priests, threaten, utter gloomy sighs, a mournful lament, or a bright hymn of glory; they can break forth into awe-inspiring cries and awaken the dead or doom the living with their fearful voices.

  Hector Berlioz

  Religious, Powerful, Epic

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• My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.
  I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

  Olivier Messiaen

  Life, God, Faith

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• Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Motivational, Philosophy

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• I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Money, Philosophy

  "Chopin". Book by Arthur Hedley,, 1947.

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• I wouldn't call myself a leader. I don't want to lead people, I want to tempt them, I want to create a new world for them, just for that very small moment, when they are losing themselves in my music. I want to inspire them

  Paul van Dyk

  Leadership, Creating, People

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• If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

  Benny Goodman

  Giving, Guy, African American

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• When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

  Carla Bley

  Teacher, Listening, Records

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• I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all the arts combined. Students are always asking me for advice, and I tell them that they have to be enthusiastic, because it's hard work. The only way to enjoy it is to be totally immersed. If you don't get involved on that level, it could be a very miserable job. I only have one regret about my career: I'm sorry that we are not making silent movies any more. That is the purest art form I can imagine.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Movie, Art, Jobs

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• Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for

  Yuja Wang

  Dark, Blood, Rocks

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• Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.

  Mike Zwerin

  Jazz, Outlaw, Musician

  1985 La Tristesse de Saint Louis: Swing Under the Nazis, ch.4.

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