Music Is Quotes - Page 26

• I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.

  Roger Sessions

  Sometimes, Difficult, Listeners

  Roger Sessions (2015). “Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays”, p.169, Princeton University Press

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• My music is not really about one ideology. It's not about one truth.

  Matisyahu

  Ideology

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• Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.

  Ziggy Marley

  Things In Life, Essentials, Teach

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

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• Music is proof that beauty is deeper than looks.

  Hayley Williams

  Looks, Proof, Deeper

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• Music is so essential to the Cuban character that you can't disentangle it from the history of the nation. the history of Cuban music is one of cultural collisions, of voluntary and forced migrations, of religions and revolutions.

  Ned Sublette

  Character, Essentials, Migration

  Ned Sublette (2007). “Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo”, p.8, Chicago Review Press

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• Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

  Patrick Stump

  Thinking, Important, Important Things

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• Music is not just a part of my everday life, I'm surrounded by it every minute.

  Haley Reinhart

  Minutes

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• It's important to give kids an opportunity to see what the world is about, and music is a fantastic friend.

  Pinchas Zukerman

  Kids, Opportunity, Giving

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• I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

  Jane Siberry

  Climate, Difficult, Household

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• There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.

  Duane Allman

  Inspirational, Music, Communication

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• Sir! Sir! I'm afraid your music is just too loud!

  CM Punk

  Funny, Wwe, Loud

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• Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album.

  Dennis Brown

  People, Albums, Looks

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• In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.

  Serj Tankian

  Thinking, America, Issues

  "Singer-songwriter Serj Tankian". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. October 11, 2010.

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• I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

  Nell Freudenberger

  Writing, Car, Listening To Music

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• I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can you get this language to be like music and communicate feeling at the base level in the same way a composition with no words communicates meaning? It might be impossible. Language is always burdened by thought. I'm just trying to get it so it can be like feeling.

  Terrance Hayes

  Thinking, People, Expectations

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• Music is the medium for expressing emotion. Music kindles love and infuses hope. It has countless voices and instruments. Music is in the hearts of all men and women

  Sivananda

  Heart, Men, Voice

  Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”

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• The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Lovely, Lovely Woman

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.298

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• The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

  Virgil Thomson

  Writing, Simple, Wish

  Quoted in Machlis Introduction to Contemporary Music (1963).

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• I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man

  Leonard Bernstein

  Music, Spiritual, Art

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• The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Kids, Rocks, Rock Music

  "Juliana Hatfield Says Goodbye To The Stage, Hello To Art School". Interview with MiddleMojo.com, middlemojo.com.

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• I think the reason I've been able to keep making music is because I'm not married, I don't have kids.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Kids, Thinking, Able

  "Omnivore: Hatfield’s Quiet Farewell?". Boston Magazine Interview, www.bostonmagazine.com. January 27, 2010.

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• Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Struggle, Impact, People

  "Pop Quiz: Juliana Hatfield". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. September 21, 2008.

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• Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable.

  Carl Nielsen

  Music Is Life

  '4th Symphony' ('The Inextinguishable', 1916) preface

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• The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can’t let it sit inside me.

  Florence Welch

  Way, Exorcism, Demon

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• I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Music, God

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