Music Is Quotes - Page 36

• Music is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only difference between a dead person and a live person is the energy, the electricity flowing inside their system, and that's what makes music.

  John Frusciante

  Differences, Important, Energy

  15 Copy quote

• We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.

  Tina Weymouth

  Music, Groove, Dialogue

  9 Copy quote

• We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.

  Tina Weymouth

  Music, Together, Way

  4 Copy quote

• I still believe that music is healing to some extent.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Believe, Healing, Stills

  Twitter post from Dec 02, 2014

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

  Ikue Mori

  Inspiration, Book, Ideas

  6 Copy quote

• Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are

  Tom DeLonge

  Dance Music, Who You Are

  102 Copy quote

• In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really about.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Important, Individual, Arise

  9 Copy quote

• People usually complain that music is so ambiguous, and what they are supposed to think when they hear it is so unclear, while words are understood by everyone. But for me it is exactly the opposite...what the music I love expresses to me are thoughts not to indefinite for words, but rather too definite.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Thinking, Opposites, People

  71 Copy quote

• It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Precise

  98 Copy quote

• But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.

  Van Cliburn

  Strong, Forever, May

  13 Copy quote

• Music is the language of the heart without words.

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Heart, Language

  24 Copy quote

• Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

  Tina Weymouth

  Music, Differences, Language

  5 Copy quote

• Music is a kind of harmonious language.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Language, Kind, Harmonious

  "Biografia di Gioachino Rossini". Book by Antonio Zanolini, 1875.

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Boredom, Release, Function

  4 Copy quote

• The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed.

  Kate Braverman

  Nuclear Families, Elements, Revolution

  Kate Braverman (1998). “Small Craft Warnings: Stories”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Disappointment, Thinking, People

  9 Copy quote

• I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Two, Long, People

  10 Copy quote

• For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.

  Herbie Mann

  Play, Perfect, Style

  7 Copy quote

• There is still a future with music, because people want music

  Maynard James Keenan

  People, Want, Stills

  6 Copy quote

• I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.

  Bill Frisell

  Hate, People, Labels

  4 Copy quote

• Music is a treasure and a love and a delight. It clears people's souls and lifts them high.

  David Rodigan

  People, Soul, Delight

  8 Copy quote

• It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Song, Hurt, Healing

  8 Copy quote

• What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself, -- it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of colour and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men -- who all feel differently.

  Carl Maria von Weber

  Art, Passion, Love Is

  19 Copy quote

• Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing.

  Anton Webern

  Law, Hearing, Natural

  Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

  James Black

  School, Math, Years

  9 Copy quote