Words And Music Quotes - Page 2

• Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Jazz And Life, Boundaries

  "Bird: the legend of Charlie Parker". Book by Robert George Reisner, p. 27, 1977.

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• Man, there's no boundary line to art!

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Art, Men

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

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• Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Music, Mean, Love Is

  Harry Allen Overstreet (1927). “About ourselves: psychology for normal people”

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• I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

  Billy Joel

  Music, Healing, Thinking

  Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.rollingstone.com. November 06, 1986.

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• Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.

  Charles de Lint

  Teenager, Book, Obsessive Love

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• These are not necessarily our agendas, but we feel a part of what a performer is, and what a performer has to say is more than just words and music.

  Kenneth Ehrlich

  Music, Agendas, Feels

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• Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.

  Dolly Parton

  Running, Ideas, Mind

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• Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be sub-divided rhythmically.

  Jeff Britting

  Meter, Regularity, Certain

  Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

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• Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Needs, Stones, Way

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• Words and music together create powerful, powerful things.

  Craig Finn

  Powerful, Together

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The songs started as a soundscapes, and then came the words and music; each song took at least a year to make.

  Justin Vernon

  Song, Years

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Double-check your voice mail message. Listen to your on-hold words and music. Write welcoming scripts for your telephone team. Pay attention to the music in your office and lobby areas. Make sure what your customers hear sounds good.

  Ron Kaufman

  Team, Writing, Service Culture

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• if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Whole Life, Slips, Ifs

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.154, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

  Jane Hirshfield

  Perception, Possibility, New Possibilities

  Jane Hirshfield (2015). “Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World”, p.8, Knopf

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• My [singing] style really has no style, because I try to sing each number differently. I’ve always believed that if style takes precedent over the words and music, the audience get’s cheated. It’s like when people see a fine play or movie. They imagine themselves in the leading role. I want them to imagine that they’re singing - not just listening to someone else.

  Judy Garland

  Play, Numbers, People

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• I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.

  John Lennon

  Meaningful, Song, Morning

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• My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

  Yoko Ono

  Husband, Humble, Men

  "The Murder of John Lennon", edition.cnn.com. 2006.

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• A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone.

  Clay Aiken

  Song, Pain, Soul

  Clay Aiken, Allison Glock (2004). “Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life”, p.23, Random House

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