Music Is Quotes - Page 9

• I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Two, Long, 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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• 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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• It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Song, Hurt, Healing

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• What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself, -- it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of colour and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men -- who all feel differently.

  Carl Maria von Weber

  Art, Passion, Love Is

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• Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing.

  Anton Webern

  Law, Hearing, Natural

  Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

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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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• 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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