Music Quotes - Page 32

• Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

  H. L. Mencken

  Home, Musician, Week

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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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• If you love music hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company; and takes up a great deal of time, which might be much better employed.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Play, Light, Gentleman

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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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• 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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• I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Venice, Shylock

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 69

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• Music is our myth of the inner life.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Music Is, Myth, Inner Life

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

  Daniel Ek

  Numbers, Advantage, Right Now

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• The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Order, Play, May

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• It's a creative enterprise, just like art, just like painting, music. Creating something can be done in different categories, so to do it in film is just another expression, which is great. Because it translates so well because so many people see the work, if you're lucky.

  Robert Redford

  Art, Expression, Creating

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• I'm able to laugh now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy to heal over the years, my music's been wonderful for me. But I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19, so ... I went to Catholic school and all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?' I was very naive.

  Lady Gaga

  Crazy, School, Self

  "Lady Gaga's most revealing interview yet" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. December 3, 2014.

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• I turned a lot of people off over the past few years, but I know I can still turn out good music and turn everything all around, i've lost some of my best qualities. For that, I am sorry.

  Justin Bieber

  Sorry, Past, Years

  "Hannibal Buress Tears into Justin Bieber at Comedy Central Roast" by Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. March 16, 2015.

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• People used to think of vocal music as boring choir stuff, once you figured out that you can do crazy beat-boxing, awesome bass lines (and) throw everything together, you just have really cool music.

  Isaac Hecker

  Crazy, Thinking, People

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• It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.

  Nina Simone

  Calling, Looks, Use

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• I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

  Sappho

  Tortoises, Shells, Instruments

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.10, Univ of California Press

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• In spite of what Draco is like, I really like school, and I miss it a lot when I'm filming. I've a fair idea what I want to do for my GCSEs, I will definitely be doing music.

  Tom Felton

  School, Ideas, Missing

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

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• I woke up this morning, smiled at the rising sun.

  Bob Marley

  Morning, Rising, Sun

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• Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.

  John Piper

  Inspiring, Christian, Feelings

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• I grew up listening to Tupac, Biggie and other hip hop artists in the 90s. To this day, their music is still some of my favorite.

  Michael Isabella

  Artist, Hip Hop, Biggie

  "Former ‘Top Chef’ star plans controversial Biggie & Tupac rap rivalry dinner". www.foxnews.com. December 22, 2014.

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• Your life is worth much more than gold.

  Bob Marley

  Life, Gold, Life Is

  Song: Jamming, Album: Exodus, 1977

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• Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality.

  Bob Marley

  Jealousy, Reality, Jamaica

  Song: Wake Up And Live, Album: Survival, 1979

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• Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

  Virgil

  Optimism, Singing, Existential

  "Eclogues (Book IX)". Book by Virgil, 37 BC.

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• The time to hesitate is through.

  Jim Morrison

  Commitment

  Song: Ligth My Fire!

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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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