Music Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.

  Bob Marley

  Judging, May, Life Is

  Song: Could You Be Loved, Album: Uprising, 1980

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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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• ... I'm not conscious of the speed ... it's not my motive ... my motive is displaying a voice through the fingerboard ... it can get to the point where I don't have control over what I am playing ... I never end the gig until I can't sing anymore

  Alvin Lee

  Voice, Gigs, Speed

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• Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.

  Carlos Santana

  Men, Notes, Coltrane

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• It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind we're in it together.

  Chick Corea

  Artist, Creating, Joy

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• I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.

  Chick Corea

  Mean, People, World

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• Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.

  Bob Marley

  One Day, Buckets, Wells

  Song: I Shot The Sheriff, Album: Burnin', 1973

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• A hungry mob is an angry mob.

  Bob Marley

  Hungry, Adages, Angry

  "Song: 'Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)'". 1974.

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• My soul is always lifted up, and my spirit cheered and comforted, when I hear good music. I rejoice in it very much indeed.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Soul, Spirit, Rejoice

  Joseph Fielding Smith (1971). “Gospel Doctrine”

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• Music is a performance and needs the audience.

  Michael Tippett

  Needs, Audience, Performances

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• We JAH people can make it work.

  Bob Marley

  People

  Song: Work, Album: Uprising, 1980

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• Judge not, before you judge yourself.
  Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment.
  The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too,
  so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.

  Bob Marley

  Hands, Perfect, Judging

  "Song: 'Judge Not'". 1961.

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• Music rearranges your molecular structure.

  Carlos Santana

  Structure

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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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• Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.

  Jose Bergamin

  Opposites, Doe, Way

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• We not only grew up on Be-Bop; Be-Bop raised us. For my generation, Be-Bop came on like a light bulb going flash behind the eyes.For us, it was not only an intellectual movement, but a way of life. We walked, dressed, and rapped Be-Bop.

  Ishmael Reed

  Eye, Light, Intellectual

  Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books

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• The music is in minors.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Musician, Music Is, Minors

  Gwendolyn Brooks (1971). “The world of Gwendolyn Brooks”, Harpercollins

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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 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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• 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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• Down the road someone is practicing scales,
  The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails

  Louis MacNeice

  Sound, Tails, Littles

  Louis Macneice, “Sunday Morning”

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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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• And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart.

  Jacques Roumain

  Heart, Dawn, Unstoppable

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