Music Quotes - Page 26

• Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

  Alexander Pope

  Dance, Light, Broken

  Alexander Pope (1797). “Moral essays”, p.292

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• Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.

  Clark Terry

  School, College, Dukes

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• Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

  Lester Bowie

  Memorable, Exercise, Jazz And Life

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• The trouble with this country is that everything is new. We don't have any consideration for the past... Just because something is old, you don't just rip it down. You can renovate it instead of ripping it down and building something new.

  Woody Shaw

  Country, Rip, Past

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• If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits."

  Jean-Jacques Nattiez

  Writing, Flirting, Able

  Jean-Jacques Nattiez (1990). “Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music”, p.99, Princeton University Press

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• Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.

  Max Roach

  Roles, Jazz, Monk

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• From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.

  Tom Araya

  Country, Song, Listening

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

  Syd Barrett

  Song, Stars, Thinking

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

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• I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Jobs, Sex, Work

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

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• If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

  Geezer Butler

  Boys, Poison, Band

  "GEEZER BUTLER - 'The '80's Were The Worst Period For Metal'". Metal Exiles Interview, bravewords.com. March 24, 2005.

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• I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

  John Lydon

  Song, Writing, Singers

  Interview With Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

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• Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

  Willie Nelson

  Love, Country, Song

  Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.99, Penguin

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• Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

  Paul Weller

  Frustration, Guitar, Frustrated

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  You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Art, Book

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  When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.

  Frank Ocean

  Happiness, Sad, Happy

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

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• Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop
  I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop
  Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top
  Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop.

  Phife Dawg

  Rap, Heart, Hip Hop

  "Song: 'We Can Get Down'". 1993.

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• I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.

  Kurt Weill

  Light, Differences, Serious

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• We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope.

  Merle Haggard

  Life, Hope, Writing

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• But know this: as far as a music culture goes, EDM is the one who will accept the kids on the outliers, the ones who get bullied, the ones who feel like they may not quite fit in. This community is exceptional in its ability to bond all types together, and I am not exaggerating when I say it saves lives. Our audience is intelligent and kind, discriminating only in regards to which sound they like best. Our audience is unprecedented in their drive to proactively support each other.

  Kaskade

  Life, Kids, Intelligent

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• When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.

  Nino Rota

  Happiness, Being Happy, Heart

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• My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

  Etta James

  Mother, Song, Creativity

  FaceBook post by Etta James from Aug 28, 2013

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• In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill.

  Robert Lawson Shaw

  Luxury, Focus, Political

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• I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me.

  Zachary Levi

  Dance, Song, Hate

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• It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.

  Elvin Jones

  Beautiful, Honesty, Style

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• James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard - I think they had strong influences on a lot of people, because these were the guys who really got rock'n'roll going. I like to start with the origin of things, because once it gets along it changes. It's so interesting to see how it really was in the beginning.

  Michael Jackson

  Strong, Thinking, Rocks

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Mar 29, 2013

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