Music Is Quotes - Page 29

• I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.

  Maya Beiser

  Creativity, Want, Possibility

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• Music is a wonderful way of getting in touch with the stillness within.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Way, Wonderful, Stillness

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• Sometimes I feel the music is the only medicine.

  Kanye West

  Medicine, Sometimes, Feels

  Song: Crack_Music_, Album: Late Registration, 2005

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• Music is what I love, take that away from me and I really got nothing.

  Mac Miller

  Kids Movie

  Song: Kickin Incredibly Dope Shit Intro, Album: K.I.D.S.

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• I prefer to learn everything through music. If you want divinity, the music in every human being and their love for music is pretty much it. It's the big indication of their spirituality and their ability to love and make love, or feel pain or joy, and really manifest it, really be real.

  Jeff Buckley

  Pain, Real, Joy

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• Music... is the shaping of the invisible.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Invisible

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• There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Music, Father, People

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• Because for me, '60s pop music is amongst the most complicated or complex music because it has so many resonances which strike you. The music itself is often simple, but the way that I interpret it, or the way I think it's interpreted culturally, is very complex.

  Tim Gane

  Simple, Thinking, Way

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• Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Balance

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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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• Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Music, Prayer, Children

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• Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Gift From God, Glorious

  Martin Luther (1818). “The familiar discourses of dr. Martin Luther, tr. by H. Bell”, p.428

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• Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Spiritual, Ocean

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

  Dan Fogelberg

  Real, Thinking, Made

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• Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Music, Thinking, Way

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “Very Far Away from Anywhere Else”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music is like a classic story, like the Iliad-something so perfect it can never be old.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, Perfect, Stories

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• When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

  Tom Glazer

  Music, Today, Folks

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• 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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• Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even to-the-point memos, music is as important as meaning. In fact, music can drive home the meaning of words.

  Constance Hale

  Home, Adventure, News Stories

  "Writing for the ear" by Lisa Dusenbery, therumpus.net. June 13, 2012.

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• My mum's an opera singer: I grew up watching her get swept up in music and transform herself into characters. She taught me that music is a lifelong journey, and that with every day and every song and every gig you learn something new.

  Katie Noonan

  Song, Art, Character

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• I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise

  A. R. Rahman

  Spiritual, Exercise, Soul

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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 on a higher plane than everything else in this world.

  Jean Sibelius

  World, Planes, Higher

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• Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Thinking, Musical, Mind

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