Music Is Quotes - Page 10

• Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear.

  Oscar Peterson

  Long, Clubs, Jazz

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• There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound.

  Kate Mosse

  Writing, Echoes, Mind

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• But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that, you're gonna find a lot of issues coming up.

  Kurt Loder

  Passion, Thinking, Issues

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• A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It’s kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.

  Marcus Mumford

  Heart, Air, People

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• The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.

  Michael Feinstein

  Air, Legacy, Today

  "The memory of Gershwin prompts host of albums". www.cnn.com. November 05, 1998.

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• The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.

  Ben Harper

  Ideas, Ties, Stronger

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• The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin.

  Jessie Andrews

  People, Age, Violin

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• Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.

  Al Jardine

  Brother, Dad, Musical

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• Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one and from this marriage to that divorce, from a beating here to a beating there.

  Ben Mink

  Country, Art, Moving

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• At the piano, I'm able to communicate in a way that is very intimate and direct. My approach at music is a bit like talking to a friend. You don't have to be very complicated when you speak. If you say what's in your heart, it's usually very simple.

  David Lanz

  Heart, Simple, Talking

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• The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form from the comparison of things one with another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf; it is neither good nor bad.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Gratitude, Thinking, Quality

  Baruch Spinoza “Ethics”, Lulu.com

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• Maybe I'll put my iPod in two minutes before. But truly, I've listened to actors say that they loved to listen to music before a shot, and I really understand that now because it puts you in the mood and gives you energy.

  Berenice Bejo

  Two, Ipods, Giving

  "‘The Artist’ Director Michel Hazanavicius and Star Berenice Bejo". Interview with Raffi Asdourian, thefilmstage.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated.

  John Barbirolli

  Music, Three, Raspberries

  Of modern music. Quoted in M Kennedy Barbirolli, Conductor Laureate (1971).

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• I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything.

  Carrot Top

  Fun, Kissing, Thinking

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• My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard

  Dan Fogelberg

  Real, Thinking, Made

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• Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle, and bored; where the art is impoverished; where entertainment—movies, theater, music—is policed or absent altogether; and where young men are set apart from the consoling and socializing presence of women.

  Lawrence Wright

  Art, Opportunity, Men

  Lawrence Wright (2006). “The Looming Tower”, p.107, Vintage

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• Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

  Alban Berg

  Reflection, Feelings, Perception

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• Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music and albums. Artist think music is a drawing, and they draw theirs.

  Jay Park

  Artist, Thinking, Drawing

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• All music is worship. It just depends on what you’re worshipping.

  Jon Foreman

  Worship, Depends

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• Music is an indirect force for change

  Jesse Michaels

  Indirect, Force

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• Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.

  Jamie Murphy

  Children, Chess, Nursery

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• To all those who won't listen to my music because I don't smoke ganga, I say the hell with those people

  Eddy Grant

  People, Hell, Smoke

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• Music is always a healer. Music has never let me down. I know it’s my religion. There’s the idea that you can’t truly know happiness until you know sadness, so how can you heal yourself unless you’ve hurt yourself? I’m still figuring out who I am, but I know that I’m not who I was.

  Brendon Urie

  Hurt, Sadness, Who I Am

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• From the shore, the ocean is forever. It's a beautiful, dangerous place. Music is tied to the sea, born from the struggle, looking for hope. Because hope belongs in the dark places.

  Jon Foreman

  Beautiful, Ocean, Struggle

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• Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain.

  George Szell

  Heart, Thinking, Feelings

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