Music Quotes - Page 6

• Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Dream, Peace, Perfection

  Entry for March 17, 1870, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

  John Frusciante

  Trying, Spirit, Endeavor

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• The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."

  Aaron Copland

  Art, Would Be, Asking

  What to Listen for in Music (1939) ch. 2

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• True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

  George Gershwin

  Inspiration, People, Repeats

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• Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

  Frederick Delius

  Life, Happiness, Real

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• Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

  Wayne Shorter

  Clouds, Patterns, Jazz

  Twitter post from May 15, 2017

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• Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

  Pablo Casals

  Beautiful, Heart, Creativity

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

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• I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

  Jack Lemmon

  Funny, Morning, Sorry

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• We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.

  Wynton Marsalis

  People, Tragedy, Lasts

  "35 Who Made a Difference: Wynton Marsalis". www.smithsonianmag.com. November 01, 2005.

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• To play without passion is inexcusable!

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Passion, Play, Jazz

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• Music should be your escape.

  Missy Elliot

  Musical, Music Love, Should

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• Always look ahead, but never look back.

  Miles Davis

  Looks, Jazz

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• If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

  Mencius

  Kings, Land, Piano

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• Music is my religion.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Religion, Rock N Roll, Jazz

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• Music is the space between the notes.

  Claude Debussy

  Art, Weekend, Silence

  "Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving". Book by Jonathan G. Koomey (p. 96), 2001.

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  Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.

  Frank Zappa

  Love, Wisdom, Guitar

  Song: Packard Goose

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• I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

  Keith Richards

  Mean, Guitar, Piano

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• Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Soul, Honor, Delight

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• The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

  Count Basie

  Real, Just Being, Jazz

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• Let your life be your music and let your music be your life.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Jazz, Life Is, Musical

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• The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Powerful, Essence

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1958). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.257, Courier Corporation

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• You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it!

  Art Tatum

  Kids, Practice, Jazz

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• Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Creative, World

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1043, GENERAL PRESS

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• Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

  Ouida

  Sublime, Genius, Kind

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.319, Ouida

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