Music Is Quotes - Page 24

• All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.

  Walt Whitman

  Music, Baritones, Instruments

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.90, NYU Press

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• Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

  Victoria Wood

  Children, Elements, Should

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• Good music is wine turned to sound

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Wine, Sound

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1541, Delphi Classics

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• Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

  Lesley Garrett

  Dark, Emotional, Corners

  "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• We’re really lucky to live in a planet that has so much music. We could be living in some bland planet that had no music, no movies, no books, just a bunch of people going around having jobs and things like that. To me that would be a really miserable place, you know, to me music is what makes this world a really fun place to be, you know?

  John Frusciante

  Jobs, Fun, Book

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• Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

  Gordon Getty

  Understanding

  "I want to make the world better" by Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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• I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.

  Ornette Coleman

  Thinking, Musician, Kind

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• No human society, present or past, has lacked music. Music is therefore one of the very few human universals, which puts it on the same level as food and sex.

  Fredric Lieberman

  Sex, Past, Cooking

  "An Interview with Mickey Hart" by Michael J. Vaughn, www.themontserratreview.com. 1999.

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• I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.

  Martina McBride

  Country, Brother, Dad

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• I just want to do films 'cause I like being someone else. My music is kind of like my diary. I'll always do that... I just feel like the music industry isn't as positive as I'd like it to be.

  Miley Cyrus

  Diaries, Want, Causes

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• Music is the perfect type of art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Music, Art, Perfect

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.265, Oxford University Press

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• The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

  Rene Descartes

  Music, Moving, Sound

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• So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

  George Eliot

  Music, World, Invisible

  George Eliot (1874). “The Legend of Jubal: And Other Poems”, p.242

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• Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.

  Franz Liszt

  Music, Taken, Style

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• Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

  Alistair Cooke

  Cocktails, Accepted

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• I play music because I love it and I'll keep playin' till I'm old.

  Jake Bugg

  Play

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

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• Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence.

  Pat Metheny

  Jazz, Your Presence

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• Music is always my great escape... I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.

  Perry Farrell

  Children, Want, Hell

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• May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty. Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in the diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

  George Eliot

  Love, Sweet, Agony

  George Eliot (1900). “Armgart: The Spanish Gypsy, and Other Poems”

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• My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Mind, Singing, Trying

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• Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

  Iggy Azalea

  Art, Museums

  "Rough edges are part of Iggy Azalea's charm". Interview with Allison Stewart, articles.chicagotribune.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.

  Gordon Getty

  Yesterday, Century, Newspapers

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• Music is my life and my life is music.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Life Is, Music Is My Life

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• I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.

  Gretchen Wilson

  Music, Country, Heart

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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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