Music Quotes - Page 36

• We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Funny, Dream, Believe

  Zelda Fitzgerald (1992). “The Collected Writings”, New York : Collier Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International

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• I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

  Ace Frehley

  Daughter, Mother, Dad

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• I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

  Robert Frost

  Sound, May

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.141, Harvard University Press

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• Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Witty, Humorous

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• The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

  Herbie Hancock

  Technique, Jazz, Dazzling

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• I think I was supposed to play jazz.

  Herbie Hancock

  Thinking, Play, Jazz

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• I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

  Herbie Hancock

  Vision, Jazz, Avenues

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• You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

  Herbie Hancock

  Practice, Technique, Moments

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• Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

  Debbie Harry

  Believe, Speech

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• If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.

  Levon Helm

  Helping, Ifs

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• Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Sight, Yelling, Singing

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• It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

  Steve Jobs

  Online, Stores, Competitors

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.68, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.

  Jay-Z

  Thinking, Race, America

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• I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

  Steve Lacy

  New Orleans, Jazz

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• There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Sight, Singing, Delight

  Walter Savage Landor (1898). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”

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• We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

  John Lennon

  Jesus, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Interview with Maureen Cleave in Evening Standard 4 Mar. 1966. Cf. Zelda Fitzgerald

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• We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

  John Lennon

  Our Generation, Nwo, Pet

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• Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

  Courtney Love

  Stupid, Self, Drug

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

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• I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

  John Lydon

  Rotten, Amusement, Mines

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• The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

  Gustav Mahler

  Life, Change, Art

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• I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

  Bob Marley

  Love, God, Men

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  Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Family Practice" by Leigh Roche, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2015.

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• I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Listening, Made, Feels

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• Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

  Dave Matthews

  Hell, Music Is, Go To Hell

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

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• I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

  Dave Matthews

  Artist, Self, Pity

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