Music Quotes - Page 35

• When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure fragrance even without incense or tea.

  Zicheng Hong

  Song, Reality, Mind

  Zicheng Hong, Tze-chiang Chao (1959). “A Chinese Garden of Serenity: Epigrams from the Ming Dynasty "Discourses on Vegetable Roots"”

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• At that elusive moment when we transcend our ordinary performance and feel in harmony with something else-whether it's a glorious sunset, inspiring music or another human being-our studies have shown that what we are really coming in sync with is ourselves. Not only do we feel more relaxed and at peace, but this entrained state increases our ability to perform well and offers numerous health benefits.

  Doc Childre

  Sunset, Ordinary, Benefits

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• Instrumental music can spread the international language.

  Herb Alpert

  Jazz, Language, Spread

  Twitter post from Oct 18, 2017

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• I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

  Fiona Apple

  Inspirational, Mistake, Years

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• Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Piano, Differences, Violin

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• If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.

  Count Basie

  Play, Feet, Tunes

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• Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.

  Allan Bloom

  Children, Silver Platter, Rocks

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

  Bono

  Song, Inspire, Desire

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• When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

  David Bowie

  Stars, Thinking, Firsts

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• Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

  David Bowie

  Sometimes, Chords

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• When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

  Maria Callas

  Wisdom, Failure, Heart

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• I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for.

  Jasper Carrott

  Media, Radio, Today

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

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• My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

  Ray Charles

  Roots, Childhood, Fatherhood

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.111, Da Capo Press

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• I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

  Ray Charles

  Badass, Bad Ass, Fame

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• Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

  Leonard Cohen

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Leonard Cohen: Most Iconic Quotes" by Katie O'malley, www.elle.com. November 11, 2016.

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• All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

  John Coltrane

  Law, Jazz, Natural

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• Songs are more powerful than books.

  Elvis Costello

  Song, Powerful, Book

  "Elvis Costello: What I've Learned" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. November 2003.

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• Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

  John Cusack

  Funny, Miserable, Pops

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• I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

  Bob Dylan

  Folks, Folk Music

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

  Bob Dylan

  Drifting Off, Kind, Imagine

  "Bob Dylan Sounds Off On The Origin Of His New Record, Parlor Music, Dr. Dre, And Who His Songs Are About". Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2009.

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• The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Inspiring, Beautiful, Christian

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.619

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• The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

  Havelock Ellis

  Sex, Prayer, Romantic Love

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  Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

  Eminem

  Love, Rap, Thinking

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• Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

  Eminem

  Self, Feelings, Loathing

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• I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

  Eminem

  Enough, Accomplished, Havens

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