Live Music Quotes

• One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

  Bob Marley

  Funny, Music, Wisdom

  Song: Trenchtown Rock

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  If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Music, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.12, St. Martin's Press

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• There is only one better thing than music - live music.

  Jacek Andrzej Bukowski

  Music

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• There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.

  Dhani Jones

  Soul, Energy

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• Live music is the most primal form of energy release you can share with other people besides having sex or taking drugs.

  Kurt Cobain

  Sex, People, Drug

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• There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Compare

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  Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, 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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• I think that live music is something that the Internet can never kill.

  Jim James

  Thinking, Internet, Music Is

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

  Brian Eno

  Emotional, Listening, Important

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• It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.

  Mick Jagger

  People, Return, Band

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• Live music is the cure for what ails ya.

  Henry Rollins

  Cures, Music Is

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• Live music is better.

  Neil Young

  Music Is

  Song: Union Man, Album: Hawks And Doves, 1980

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• None but ourselves can free our minds.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)

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• If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Art, Reality

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

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• Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment.

  Jonathan Demme

  Film, Moments, Music Is

  "I'm Carolyn Parker: Filmmaker Interview with Jonathan Demme". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• Let my children have music! Let them hear live music.

  Charles Mingus

  Music, Children, My Children

  "What Is A Jazz Composer?". Charles Mingus' liner notes for "Let My Children Hear Music", album composed by Charles Mingus, January/February 1972.

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• To listen only to records is a sin of narcissism. It is important to hear live music, in concert, which is a source of emotions that a record can never convey.

  Joaquin Rodrigo

  Important, Records, Emotion

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• I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.

  Jon Foreman

  Thinking, Creating, Destruction

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• I love live music and I love to see people's faces when I'm performing.

  Leighton Meester

  People, Faces, Performing

  FaceBook post by Leighton Meester from Oct 19, 2012

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• If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

  Charles Darwin

  Music, Mental Health, Week

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It's always inspiring to watch live music.

  Patty Schemel

  Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

  Tom Waits

  Guy, Jukebox, Might

  "Tom Waits: 'I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2011.

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• I love seeing live music.

  Jessica Szohr

  Seeing

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• I'm actually a huge fan of hip-hop. I like hip-hop music. I love rap. I like cabaret music, as well. I just love live music and bands.

  Britney Spears

  Rap, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: collider.com

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• When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

  Carla Bley

  Music, Teacher, Listening

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