Music Is Quotes - Page 30

• I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Music, Sacrifice, Serving God

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.

  Heinrich Heine

  Miracle, Matter, Spirit

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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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• Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Worship, Highest

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2100, Manonmani Publishers

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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 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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• Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

  Carla Bley

  Listening, Important, Receiving

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• Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

  Alban Berg

  Reflection, Feelings, Perception

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• Our sages developed music from time immemorial to take shelter in one's true self. Real music is not for wealth, not for honors, or not even for the joys of the mind - it is a path for realization and salvation.

  Ali Akbar Khan

  Real, Self, Joy

  George Ruckert, Ali Akbar Khan (1998). “The Classical Music of North India: The first years study”, Munshirm Manoharlal Pub Pvt Ltd

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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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• Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres.

  Avicii

  Viruses, Different, Genre

  "Avicii's mix of EDM and country has given ravers a wake-up call" by David Renshaw, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2013.

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• Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.

  Ned Rorem

  Art, Nostalgia, Evoke

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.

  Daphne Zuniga

  Movie, People, Want

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• The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.

  Pierre Boulez

  Feelings, Aim

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• Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

  Robert Quine

  Reading, Hateful, Mathematics

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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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• Music is the best consolation for a despaired man

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Consolation

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• I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting.

  Jane Siberry

  Rocks, Watches, Acoustic Music

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• Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

  Jane Siberry

  Law, Musical, Training

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• Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

  Jane Siberry

  Powerful, Book, Self

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• I want to buy my mom a house; I want my family to never have to worry about anything. And I just want to have an amazing career in music, because I love to do it.

  Ashthon Jones

  Mom, Careers, Worry

  Interview with reporters during a media conference call, idol.blogs.pressdemocrat.com. March 11, 2011.

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• Never stop supporting music because it will never stop being there for you when you need it.

  Hayley Williams

  Needs, Being There

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• Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.

  Roy Ayers

  Artist, Records, Contracts

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