Music Is Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 Magic. Magic is Life

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Magic

  Song: Woodstock Festival

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• 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

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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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• 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

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• 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

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

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Precise

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• Music is a kind of harmonious language.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Language, Kind, Harmonious

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

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• The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can’t let it sit inside me.

  Florence Welch

  Way, Exorcism, Demon

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• Music is a thing where, the more vocabulary you gather, the more you can express yourself.

  Eldar Djangirov

  Express Yourself

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

  Gordon Waller

  Great Times

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

  Carl Jung

  Music, Silence, Sound

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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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• 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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• 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

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• In America, music is more tightly categorized

  Ednita Nazario

  America

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

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Believe, Healing, Stills

  Twitter post from Dec 02, 2014

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• 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

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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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• 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

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