Music Is Quotes - Page 40

• 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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• I don't listen to so much music now. I did when I was younger. Music is so much part of my work. I like peace and quiet now when I go home.

  Elaine Paige

  Home, Quiet, Peace And Quiet

  "Elaine Paige's Musical Life, Lived On Stage". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 09, 2011.

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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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• 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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• Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Preparing, Propositions, Expensive

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• Immersing yourself in the environment of a real record store where music is celebrated and cherished adds real value to the experience of buying music. In some ways, that retail experience is as important as the music.

  John Mellencamp

  Real, Important, Retail

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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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• Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

  Jerry Reed

  Powerful, Listening, Earth

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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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• I'm willing to go wherever with this because music is everything to me. This is my world and how I see it. My music speaks for me in a way that's relatable and truthful.

  Luke James

  World, Way, Truthful

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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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• 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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• Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.

  Jean Sibelius

  Beautiful, Hands, Together

  Jean Sibelius' remarks quoted by Jalmari Finne to Anna Sarlin, June 28, 1905.

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• World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?

  L.A. Reid

  World, Shapes, Events

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• Music is love searching for a word.

  Sidney Lanier

  Searching For Love

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• Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music,
  and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.

  Sidney Lanier

  Heart, Names, Needs

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.23, University of Georgia Press

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• I think the fact that Napster is stealing recorded music is something that we have to stop. It's taking money out of my kid's mouth. That is the way I look at it. It's inherently wrong. It's stealing.

  Art Alexakis

  Kids, Thinking, Looks

  "Does Napster Allow Theft on a Grand Scale or Just Innocent Swapping?". "Crossfire" with Tucker Carlson, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2001.

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• The only other style of music that attempts to go to the deeper place of the silence that is music is New Age music.

  John Michael Talbot

  Silence, Style, Age

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• I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.

  Glen Hansard

  Air, Cynical, Poisoning

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• Jonas' music is inspiring, energizing, and spiritually uplifting. A brilliant songwriter, he writes music that reaches deep into the soul and awakens the best and highest in all of us. And Jonas delivers his songs with a power, joy, and grace that last long after the last note is played. The world needs this music!

  Marci Shimoff

  Uplifting, Song, Writing

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• I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

  Simon Van Booy

  Thinking, Faces, Language

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.15, Oneworld Publications

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