Music Quotes - Page 31

• Oh, I'm a martyr to music.

  Dylan Thomas

  Musician, Martyr

  Dylan Thomas (1954). “Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices”, p.52, New Directions Publishing

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• One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.

  Johan Huizinga

  Mean, History, Understanding

  Johan Huizinga (2014). “Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance”, p.54, Princeton University Press

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• The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment of nature, sports, fashion, social vanity (knightly orders, honorary offices, gatherings) and the intoxication of the senses.

  Johan Huizinga

  Sports, Fashion, Art

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• Light threatens, is active, is gone,
  so it is with a song.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Song, Light, Gone

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.401, New Directions Publishing

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• Music sets up ladders,
  it makes us invisible,
  it sets us apart,
  it lets us escape;
  but from the visible
  there is no escape.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Ladders, Invisible, Musician

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, New Directions Publishing

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• Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up
  The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas
  For wind instruments was riding past on a solemn white horse.
  Everybody wondered who the new arrival was.

  John Ashbery

  Horse, Past, Wind

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• So I cradle this average violin that knows
  Only forgotten showtunes, but argues
  The possibility of free declamation anchored
  To a dull refrain.

  John Ashbery

  Average, Dull, Violin

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Beautiful, Believe, Fighting

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• At that elusive moment when we transcend our ordinary performance and feel in harmony with something else-whether it's a glorious sunset, inspiring music or another human being-our studies have shown that what we are really coming in sync with is ourselves. Not only do we feel more relaxed and at peace, but this entrained state increases our ability to perform well and offers numerous health benefits.

  Doc Childre

  Sunset, Ordinary, Benefits

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• We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Art, Mean, Often Is

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• I traveled and made money and I wouldn't let anybody get between me and my music. If I belong to anything, I belong to my music. ...What you were born to do, you don't stop to think, should I? could I? would I? I only think, will I? And, I shall!

  Eva Jessye

  Commitment, Thinking, Born

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• I was just glad to get the Grammy. I didn't know what the thing was. It's the honor what I loved.

  Elizabeth Cotten

  Art, Honor, Performing

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• The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination of (provisional) purity, physical strength, naturism, spontaneity and joie de vivre which was to make the adolescent the hero of our twentieth century, the century of adolescence.

  Philippe Aries

  Strength, Hero, Typical

  Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage

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• Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

  H. L. Mencken

  Rain, Two, Scent

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• Music and Wine are one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wine, Musician

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.71, U of Nebraska Press

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• How pleasant it is to be ignorant! Not to know exactly who Mozart was, to ignore his origin, his influence, the details of his technique! To just let him lead one by the hand.

  Maria Luisa Bombal

  Hands, Ignorant, Technique

  Arturo Torres-Rioseco, Félix Pita Rodríguez, Lino Novás Calvo, Horacio Quiroga, Francisco Ayala (1967). “Short stories of Latin America”

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• Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

  H. L. Mencken

  Home, Musician, Week

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• How soar sweet music is, when time is broke, and no proportion kept!

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Broke, Proportion

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.258

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• Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Beautiful, Sublime, Mind

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• Music is our myth of the inner life.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Music Is, Myth, Inner Life

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• to deny that music powerfully influences our thoughts and conduct is either ignorant or a deliberate lie. Anyone who listens to music has been moved by it. It's music, that's the point.

  Dessa Darling

  Lying, Ignorant, Influence

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• It is agreed that all sound which is the material of music is of three sorts. First is harmonica, which consists of vocal music; second is organica, which is formed from the breath; third is rhythmica, which receives its numbers from the beat of the fingers. For sound is produced either by the voice, coming through the throat; or by the breath, coming through the trumpet or tibia, for example; or by touch, as in the case of the cithara or anything else that gives a tuneful sound on being struck.

  Isidore of Seville

  Voice, Numbers, Giving

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• For me to be able to reach out to other people throughout all this has been great, people want to hear from me and hear my music right now so it keeps me happy. I cherish every moment. I have a different perspective on everything now. In the end, I think it will make me a better person.

  Will Allison

  Thinking, Cherish Every Moment, People

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• Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
  Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
  A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
  And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she
  sings.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mother, Children, Years

  D.H. Lawrence (1961). “Selected Poems”

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• But right now we have an advantage of being the number one in music.

  Daniel Ek

  Numbers, Advantage, Right Now

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