Music Quotes - Page 28

• Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

  Bono

  Positive, Song, Thinking

  "BONO Profile: Unforgettable fire", www.cnn.com. 2001.

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• I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.

  Carlos Gavito

  Dance, Thinking, Feelings

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• A good dancer is one who listens to the musicWe dance the music not the steps. Anyone who aspires to dance never thinks about what he is going to do. What he cares about is that he follows the music. You see, we are painters. We paint the music with our feet.

  Carlos Gavito

  Dance, Thinking, Feet

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• I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His music sounds like a talented high-school trumpet player to me... he's jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.

  Keith Jarrett

  School, Player, Bmw

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• Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?

  Tony Iommi

  Three, Band, Week

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• Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.

  Alvin Ailey

  Dance, Teaching, Joy

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• I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a scene with terror, grandeur, gaiety, or misery. It can propel narrative switftly forward, or slow it down. It often lifts mere dialogue into the realm of poetry. Finally, it is the communicating link between the screen and the audience, reaching out and enveloping all into one single experience.

  Bernard Herrmann

  Inspirational, Character, Poetry

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• If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . .

  Nick Drake

  Song, Would Be, Lines

  Song: Hazey Jane II, Album: Bryter Layter

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• No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.

  Franz Schubert

  Grief, Joy, Understanding

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• Don't cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep living anyway. Save enough joy in your heart to enjoy it. Let your reward be in the doing of it.

  Bill Withers

  Cheating, Business, Heart

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• We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.

  Stan Getz

  Records, Jazz, Documents

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• I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Kids, Guitar, Play

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• When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Beautiful, Art, Instinct

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• Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.

  Socrates

  Grace, Soul, Training

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• I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

  Yngwie Malmsteen

  Classical Music, Baroque Music, Baroque

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• What we hear is the quality of our listening.

  Robert Fripp

  Listening, Quality, Jazz

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• Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

  Joseph Addison

  Wisdom, Heaven, Jazz And Life

  'A Song for St Cecilia's Day'

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• The silence between two notes is as beautiful and meaningful as the notes themselves.

  Joseph Curiale

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Two

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• To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Beauty, Flower, Garden

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• If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  World, Harmony, Feels

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• What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure

  Hans Zimmer

  Morning, Adventure, Needs

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• Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Spiritual, Art, Believe

  "The Dick Cavett Show", September 09, 1969.

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• You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Woody

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• I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Writing, Men, People

  "Working with Vaughan Williams: the correspondence of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Roy Douglas".

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• I dig Strauss and Wagner, those cats are good...

  Jimi Hendrix

  Cat, Wagner

  "Jimi Hendrix, in his own words: 'I dig Strauss and Wagner - those cats are good'" by Jimi Hendrix, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2013.

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