Great Music Quotes - Page 9

• Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.

  Marya Mannes

  Grace, Infinite, Creation

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• A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

  Buddy Rich

  Musician, Thieves, Caught

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• When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music.

  John McLaughlin

  Funny, Inspiring, Musician

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• I have learned that collaboration are everything to me. Music is a social thing. If there are no ears to hear it, it has no value. I have really loved getting input from other great musicians- like recording strings with my family or making weird synth sounds with tore nissen.

  Oh Land

  Ears, Input, Musician

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• People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.

  Sondre Lerche

  Artist, Past, Names

  "Sondre Lerche is more than 'a Bacharach-obsessed indie kid from Norway'" by Derk Richardson, www.sfgate.com. May 27, 2004.

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• There was so much great music around in the 60s, stuff like The Small Faces, but I also love The Jam.

  Iwan Rheon

  Jam, Stuff, Faces

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• Growing around great musicians, you just can't help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was so natural to me that when I started singing, it was almost like speaking.

  Whitney Houston

  Singing, Musician, Growing

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• There's always something going on, and people need that 45-minute-to-an-hour-and-15-minute break, where they just escape and not worry about bills, health care and God knows what. That, to me, is when you're making great music: when people can just forget about what's going on.

  Pitbull

  People, Worry, Needs

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• More than anything, I realize I've been blessed to make great music.

  Ciara

  Blessed, Realizing

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• There's something about heartbreak that makes for great music, but the same could be said for Jägermeister. Hangovers make for great music, too.

  Dave Grohl

  Hangover, Said

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Heart, People, Trying

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• My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musicals are also conflicts between two worlds. And by those criteria, 'The Color Purple' is actually exactly the kind of story that makes for a great musical. Yes, it's got hard stuff in it, but so does 'Les Miserables' and 'Phantom of the Opera.'

  Marsha Norman

  Simple, Views, Color

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• I think we could have done a lot more great music, so I was disappointed that we didn't continue making records and touring, but it's hard to argue with 10 good years.

  Jerry Harrison

  Thinking, Years, Done

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• I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.

  Robbie Robertson

  Thinking, Made, Music Is

  "Singer-songwriter-guitarist Robbie Robertson". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 16, 2013.

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• Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Life, Skills, Symphony

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

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• I have a limitless amount of great music at my disposal and it's very, very pleasurable because when the music goes on the film it's amazing how much it livens up the film and gives it an emotional kick in the pants, sort of.

  Woody Allen

  Emotional, Giving, Goes On

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created.

  John Marin

  Art, Greatness, Wonderful

  John Marin (1970). “John Marin”

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• From the opening lines, Sleeping with Schubert is a hilarious, whimsical romp through the looking glass of a great musical mystery. The writing snaps, crackles, and pops with humor as Bonnie Marson makes Schubert a sexy, happening kind of guy who gives new meaning to our dreaming the impossible.

  Jonis Agee

  Sexy, Dream, Sleep

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• To be honest, I don't necessarily think you have to be an actor to act. You don't have to be a musician to make great music. If it comes along and you put your all into it, the outcome is what's important.

  Andre Benjamin

  Thinking, Important, Musician

  Source: collider.com

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• We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Play

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• I was introduced to lots of great music through my local record store. It was a place where people knew music and they knew me, and could make great suggestions and discoveries. Whether it is in the physical world or on-line, the value of a great and knowledgeable record store has not gone away

  Peter Gabriel

  Discovery, Gone Away, People

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• I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.

  Gunther Schuller

  Years, Musical, Orchestra

  "Listen Back To A 1988 Conversation With Composer Gunther Schuller". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

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• I would never withhold information about the murder of my man Biggie, or anybody else. It's just silly and ridiculous. The accusations are just flying out. All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

  Puff Daddy

  Silly, Men, Biggie

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• I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all these great musicians would come through our town of Memphis. There wasn't adequate hotels, so these musicians - the lady who ran the theater knew my mother, who had a large house, and many of them would stay with us. So that was another great blessing, so I'm always around these great geniuses, and to realize their humanity is such a touching thing.

  Charles Lloyd

  Mother, Men, Blessing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We've all had the experience of you pick up a book, you can't get into it, you can't concentrate.Then one day you pick up the same book and you don't hear the phone ring. You're totally absorbed. Same thing I have to do every day. When you get into that special place of unconsciousness - you get it listening to great music or seeing a great movie - it just takes you out of yourself, out of this whole world. There's no feeling quite like it.

  T.C. Boyle

  Book, Phones, Feelings

  Source: www.pbs.org

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