Music Is Quotes - Page 23

• Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music,
  and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.

  Sidney Lanier

  Heart, Names, Needs

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.23, University of Georgia Press

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• I think the fact that Napster is stealing recorded music is something that we have to stop. It's taking money out of my kid's mouth. That is the way I look at it. It's inherently wrong. It's stealing.

  Art Alexakis

  Kids, Thinking, Looks

  "Does Napster Allow Theft on a Grand Scale or Just Innocent Swapping?". "Crossfire" with Tucker Carlson, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2001.

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• Jonas' music is inspiring, energizing, and spiritually uplifting. A brilliant songwriter, he writes music that reaches deep into the soul and awakens the best and highest in all of us. And Jonas delivers his songs with a power, joy, and grace that last long after the last note is played. The world needs this music!

  Marci Shimoff

  Uplifting, Song, Writing

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• I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

  Simon Van Booy

  Thinking, Faces, Language

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.15, Oneworld Publications

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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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• My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

  Anna Kamienska

  Silence, Speech, Layers

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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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• Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate

  Ray Charles

  Blank, Chalk, Blackboard

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• My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard

  John Cage

  My Favorite, Heard, Favorite Music

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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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• Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.

  Joshua Homme

  Smile, Queens, Dark

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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 should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

  Toru Takemitsu

  Paper, Able, Emotion

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• We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.

  Saul Williams

  Different, Different Relationships

  "Hip-hop's poet laureate speaks out". Interview with Tyson Wheatley, edition.cnn.com. January 17, 2005.

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• Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.

  Milan Kundera

  Water, Dying, Radio

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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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• Country music is always changing but the Opry is always there to serve as a lighthouse for what country music really is. The past, present and future is all encompassed by not only the physical structure of the building but also the radio show.

  Dierks Bentley

  Country, Past, Radio

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• The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

  Pierre Schaeffer

  Exercise, Variation, Mystery

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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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• Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

  Morton Feldman

  Memories, Structure, Primitive

  Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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• When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Philosophy, Eye, Thinking

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• Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness amidst all the bitterness that we encounter here.

  Marin Mersenne

  Encounters, Ears, Littles

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• Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.

  Ziggy Marley

  Causes, Reggae, Easy

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

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• Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are

  Tom DeLonge

  Dance Music, Who You Are

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• Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

  Eric Clapton

  Confusion, Wipe, Found

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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