Music Is Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

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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 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

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• 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

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

  Maynard James Keenan

  People, Want, Stills

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that, you're gonna find a lot of issues coming up.

  Kurt Loder

  Passion, Thinking, Issues

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