Music Is Quotes - Page 35

• Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound

  Max Picard

  Dream, Silence, Sound

  Max Picard (1963). “Man and Language”

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• It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing.

  Gordon Waller

  Great Times

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• Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

  Jean-Philippe Rameau

  Should Have, Principles, Mathematics

  Jean-Philippe Rameau (1971). “Traite de l'harmonie reduites a ses principes naturels”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.

  Carl Jung

  Music, Silence, Sound

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• Music is Magic. Magic is Life

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Magic

  Song: Woodstock Festival

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• There are records that you just sink into. They coincide with what you’re going through and become an ally. If our records do that for people, that’s the greatest compliment I could ever receive. That’s one of the reasons making music is so important to me, because there’s a very strange emotional reach. For me—more than books or movies or other things—music is like a mainline to your heart.

  Matt Berninger

  Book, Heart, Emotional

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• Music is what feelings sound like out loud.

  Georgia Cates

  Feelings, Sound, Loud

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• If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

  John Cage

  Music, Meaningful, Organization

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

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• I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed.

  Artur Schnabel

  Music, Great Music

  "My Life and Music" by Artur Schnabel, (p. 121), 1961.

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• The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

  Satyajit Ray

  Surfing, Use, These Days

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.103, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

  Ben Harper

  Spiritual, Guitar, Being Free

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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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• Music is organized sound.

  Edgard Varese

  Sound, Organized

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• For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

  John Hodgman

  Writing, Long, Mind

  "John Hodgman's songs for Ragnarok, the end of days". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 2, 2012.

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• Music is just something that explains people lives for them - that's what people call roots

  Chronixx

  Roots, People

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• Music is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me.

  John Frusciante

  Jobs, Party, Golf

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• Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.

  David Boies

  Napster, Vicarious, Infringement

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• Music is inspiration, soulful inspiration. It inspires the human in us. Music is manifestation, fruitful manifestation. It manifests the divine in us. Music is satisfaction, supreme satisfaction. It satisfies the Pilot Supreme in us.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Music, Inspiration, Inspire

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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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• There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because I've been doing so much promotion for this new single.

  Jamelia

  Hours In The Day, New Day, Moments

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• I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Thinking, Soul, Experience

  "Director Matthew Vaughn talks Layer Cake and X-Men 3". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. May 10, 2005.

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• In America, music is more tightly categorized

  Ednita Nazario

  America

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• Remember the music is not in the piano.

  Clement Mok

  Piano, Remember

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• To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died...At least the ones I'm connected to.

  John Frusciante

  Voice, People, Spirit

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• I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite

  John Frusciante

  Running, Ideas, Infinite

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