Music Is Quotes - Page 37

• Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Mean, Years, Wonderful

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• You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Composer, Your Favorite

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• Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.

  Steven Morrissey

  Ashes, Way, Popular Music

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• Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.

  Jimmy Carl Black

  Doors, Boss, Argument

  Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.

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• As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.

  Shelley Berman

  Sex, Culture, Privacy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.

  Gretchen Wilson

  Music, Country, Heart

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• A missionary should never permit himself to see a movie or (read) cheap literature, or hear music that tends to interfere with or which dampens the spirit of missionary work. There is ample evidence that rock music is offensive to the Spirit and affects adversely the spirituality of the missionaries and thus the success of the proselyting work.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Rocks, Missionary, Literature

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• The fruit of humanity is devotion to one's parents. The fruit of righteousness is to respect one's elders. The fruit of wisdom is to understand these two and not to betray them. The fruit of propriety is to regulate and polish them. The fruit of music is the joy that comes from rejoicing in them. When one rejoices in them, they grow. When they grow, how can they be stopped? And when they cannot be stopped, unconsciously one's feet begin to dance and one's arms begin to wave.

  Mencius

  Two, Feet, Joy

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• Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

  Lesley Garrett

  Dark, Emotional, Corners

  "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• Record labels, which used to have complete control, are essentially irrelevant. The process of a band exposing itself to the world is extremely democratic and there are no barriers. Music is no longer a commodity, it’s an environment, or atmospheric element. Consumers have much more choice and you see people indulging in the specificity of their tastes dramatically more. They only bother with music they like.

  Steve Albini

  People, Choices, Labels

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• Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

  Victoria Wood

  Children, Elements, Should

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• I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that its extremely predictable, its a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and theres a certain musical virtuosity involved in it.

  Ken Burns

  Thinking, Rocks, Play

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• Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

  Gordon Getty

  Understanding

  "I want to make the world better" by Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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• I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.

  Gordon Getty

  Yesterday, Century, Newspapers

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• Ive managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. Its all about ideas.

  Gordon Getty

  Civilization, Ideas, Dodge

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• No human society, present or past, has lacked music. Music is therefore one of the very few human universals, which puts it on the same level as food and sex.

  Fredric Lieberman

  Sex, Past, Cooking

  "An Interview with Mickey Hart" by Michael J. Vaughn, www.themontserratreview.com. 1999.

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• The beauty of a piece of music is not in its technique but in the Soul of its creator; nor is it in the
  sound vibrations of the piece but in the silence of the Light from which the sound springs.

  Walter Russell

  Love, Spring, Light

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• May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty. Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in the diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

  George Eliot

  Love, Sweet, Agony

  George Eliot (1900). “Armgart: The Spanish Gypsy, and Other Poems”

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• Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence.

  Pat Metheny

  Jazz, Your Presence

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• Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear.

  Oscar Peterson

  Long, Clubs, Jazz

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• The mystery of sound is mysticism; the harmony of life is religion. The knowledge of vibrations is metaphysics, the analysis of atoms is science, and their harmonious grouping is art. The rhythm of form is poetry, and the rhythm of sound is music. This shows that music is the art of arts and the science of allsciences; and it contains the fountain of all knowledge within itself.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Art, Analysis, Vibrations

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Mysticism of Sound, Music, The Power of the Word, Cosmic Language”, Library of Alexandria

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• I feel I must fight for [my music], because I want women to turn their minds to big and difficult jobs; not just to go on hugging the shore, afraid to put out to sea.

  Ethel Smyth

  Jobs, Fighting, Sea

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• There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound.

  Kate Mosse

  Writing, Echoes, Mind

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• Music is colorless. It's for everybody, it's for the world, it's for everybody to enjoy.

  Michael Jackson

  World, Enjoy, Colorless

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• If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

  Joe Perry

  Bored, Trying, Albums

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