Music Is Quotes - Page 39

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

  Dan Fogelberg

  Real, Thinking, Made

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• Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.

  Bill Walton

  Inspiration, Reflection, Soul

  "Bill Walton Is Talkin' With TJ". Interview with Tom James, www.nba.com.

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• Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the sonic universe! And the musicians: anyone and anything that sounds!

  R. Murray Schafer

  Lying, Musician, Sound

  R. Murray Schafer (1977). “The Tuning of the World”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.

  Shneur Zalman of Liadi

  Wisdom, Heart, Soul

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• Music is always a healer. Music has never let me down. I know it’s my religion. There’s the idea that you can’t truly know happiness until you know sadness, so how can you heal yourself unless you’ve hurt yourself? I’m still figuring out who I am, but I know that I’m not who I was.

  Brendon Urie

  Hurt, Sadness, Who I Am

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• Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.

  Al Jardine

  Brother, Dad, Musical

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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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• 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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• For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.

  Steve Kazee

  Song, Passion, Writing

  "THE LEADING MEN: Steve Kazee, the Traveling Heart of Broadway's Once". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. March 17, 2012.

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• Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music and albums. Artist think music is a drawing, and they draw theirs.

  Jay Park

  Artist, Thinking, Drawing

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• Eric Peters' music is at the top of what gets played around my house, in my car and while I am running.  I am a big fan.  He writes incredibly honest and poetic lyrics coupled with memorable pop melodies and I can think of no better combination.

  Jill Phillips

  Running, Memorable, Writing

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• Music is an indirect force for change

  Jesse Michaels

  Indirect, Force

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• Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle, and bored; where the art is impoverished; where entertainment—movies, theater, music—is policed or absent altogether; and where young men are set apart from the consoling and socializing presence of women.

  Lawrence Wright

  Art, Opportunity, Men

  Lawrence Wright (2006). “The Looming Tower”, p.107, Vintage

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• Maybe I'll put my iPod in two minutes before. But truly, I've listened to actors say that they loved to listen to music before a shot, and I really understand that now because it puts you in the mood and gives you energy.

  Berenice Bejo

  Two, Ipods, Giving

  "‘The Artist’ Director Michel Hazanavicius and Star Berenice Bejo". Interview with Raffi Asdourian, thefilmstage.com. May 18, 2011.

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• I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.

  Ansel Elgort

  Writing, World, Sometimes

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• To all those who won't listen to my music because I don't smoke ganga, I say the hell with those people

  Eddy Grant

  People, Hell, Smoke

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• To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.

  Dave Haywood

  Lines, Bottom, Bottom Line

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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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• The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play

  Miles Davis

  Play, Way, Helping

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• All music is worship. It just depends on what you’re worshipping.

  Jon Foreman

  Worship, Depends

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• The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Past, Notes

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.19

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• We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for them. Something that doesn't speak or talk like a human being, that doesn't know its definition in the dictionary or its theory in the schools, that expresses itself simply by the fact of its vibrations. People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.

  John Cage

  Music, School, Two

  "Autobiographical Statement". www.johncage.org. April 1990.

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• From the shore, the ocean is forever. It's a beautiful, dangerous place. Music is tied to the sea, born from the struggle, looking for hope. Because hope belongs in the dark places.

  Jon Foreman

  Beautiful, Ocean, Struggle

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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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• Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain.

  George Szell

  Heart, Thinking, Feelings

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