Music Is Quotes - Page 12

• The idea that rhythm is intrinsically human — not just primitive — that we all have hearts that beat at a steady rate and don't stop...reminds me of life itself. In that sense my music is like certain popular music where the rhythm drives from beginning to end.

  Michael Torke

  Heart, Ideas, Beats

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• I once said to a boy, ‘You’re a really good kisser,’ and he said, ‘You’re only as good as the person you’re kissing.' I think it’s the same with the music. If someone [says], ‘Your music is really provocative,’ I’m only as provocative as the person that’s listening to it.

  FKA twigs

  Kissing, Boys, Thinking

  "FKA Twigs Is a Woman of Mystery -- And She Likes It That Way" by Devon Maloney, www.billboard.com. August 18, 2014.

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• It's like if the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts.

  Nic Sheff

  Able, Enough, Loud

  Nic Sheff (2009). “Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.

  Brenda Ueland

  Writing, Thinking, Drawing

  Brenda Ueland (1980). “Me”, Ayer Company Pub

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• You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever.

  George Strait

  Country, Forever, Knows

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• For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

  Robert Schumann

  Language, Permit, Converses

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• Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.

  Yanni

  Emotional, Color, Creating

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• The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

  Jose Bergamin

  Noise, Firsts, Conditions

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• Music is love searching for a word.

  Sidney Lanier

  Searching For Love

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• I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

  Coco Lee

  Listening, Sound, Taiwan

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• We all have music in us - your heartbeat is your drum, your voice is your sound - and music is supposed to put you in tune with nature.

  Randy Weston

  Sound And Music, Voice, Tunes

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• Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Reading, Brain, Listening

  Interview with Aaron Burgess, www.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.

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• A lot of artists are used to their music being reused online and have come to accept and embrace it. You have a generation who go on YouTube and remake and remix music online all the time. They remake and upload songs and videos, and then other people remake the remakes; it just keeps going.

  Girl Talk

  Song, Artist, People

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• They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.

  Justin Guarini

  Math, Missing, Important

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• So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Player, Bass, Facts

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• If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

  John Cage

  Music, Meaningful, Organization

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

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• I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed.

  Artur Schnabel

  Music, Great Music

  "My Life and Music" by Artur Schnabel, (p. 121), 1961.

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• I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

  Sean Lennon

  Art, Invisible, Form

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

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• I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that.

  Win Butler

  Thinking, Rocks, Media

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• I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

  David Guetta

  Style, Albums

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All of music is connected, but a lot of people don't see it that way

  Larry Coryell

  People, Musician, Way

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• Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

  Jean-Philippe Rameau

  Should Have, Principles, Mathematics

  Jean-Philippe Rameau (1971). “Traite de l'harmonie reduites a ses principes naturels”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• Music is organized sound.

  Edgard Varese

  Sound, Organized

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• Music is inspiration, soulful inspiration. It inspires the human in us. Music is manifestation, fruitful manifestation. It manifests the divine in us. Music is satisfaction, supreme satisfaction. It satisfies the Pilot Supreme in us.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Music, Inspiration, Inspire

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• Music is Magic. Magic is Life

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Magic

  Song: Woodstock Festival

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