Music Quotes - Page 28

• Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

  Bono

  Positive, Song, Thinking

  "BONO Profile: Unforgettable fire", www.cnn.com. 2001.

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• James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard - I think they had strong influences on a lot of people, because these were the guys who really got rock'n'roll going. I like to start with the origin of things, because once it gets along it changes. It's so interesting to see how it really was in the beginning.

  Michael Jackson

  Strong, Thinking, Rocks

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Mar 29, 2013

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• In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill.

  Robert Lawson Shaw

  Luxury, Focus, Political

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• It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.

  Elvin Jones

  Beautiful, Honesty, Style

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• Music takes us where words cannot.

  Henry Winkler

  Art, Comedian, Filmmaker

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• One of the reasons I believe in jazz is that the oneness of man can come through the rhythm of your heart. It’s the same anyplace in the world, that heartbeat. It’s the first thing you hear when you’re born — or before you’re born — and it’s the last thing you hear.

  Dave Brubeck

  Believe, Heart, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two hours every day listening to Johann Sebastian Bach and, man, it's all there. If they want to improvise around a theme,which is the essence of jazz, they should learn from the master. He never wastes a note, and he knows where every note is going and when to bring it back. Some of these cats go way out and forget where they began or what they started to do. Bach will clear it up for them.

  Coleman Hawkins

  Learning, Cat, Men

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• Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades

  Tom Morello

  Funny, Two, Political

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• When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

  Don McLean

  Funny, Song, Work

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• Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It's the rhythm that gets to the kids – they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners.

  Alan Freed

  Dance, Song, Children

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• I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Kids, Guitar, Play

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• We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.

  Stan Getz

  Records, Jazz, Documents

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• When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Beautiful, Art, Instinct

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• Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.

  Socrates

  Grace, Soul, Training

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• What we hear is the quality of our listening.

  Robert Fripp

  Listening, Quality, Jazz

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• I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

  Yngwie Malmsteen

  Classical Music, Baroque Music, Baroque

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• Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

  Joseph Addison

  Wisdom, Heaven, Jazz And Life

  'A Song for St Cecilia's Day'

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• What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure

  Hans Zimmer

  Morning, Adventure, Needs

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• Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Spiritual, Art, Believe

  "The Dick Cavett Show", September 09, 1969.

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• To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Beauty, Flower, Garden

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• The silence between two notes is as beautiful and meaningful as the notes themselves.

  Joseph Curiale

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Two

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• You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Woody

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• If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  World, Harmony, Feels

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• Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

  Stan Kenton

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• I dig Strauss and Wagner, those cats are good...

  Jimi Hendrix

  Cat, Wagner

  "Jimi Hendrix, in his own words: 'I dig Strauss and Wagner - those cats are good'" by Jimi Hendrix, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2013.

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