Music Quotes - Page 35

• Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.

  Ted Turner

  Peace, Common Humanity, People

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• If you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.

  Bob Marley

  Looks, Earth, Life Is

  "Song: 'Get Up, Stand Up'". 1973.

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• Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Piano, Differences, Violin

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• If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

  Bono

  Song, Inspire, Desire

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• It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

  Steve Jobs

  Online, Stores, Competitors

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.68, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

  Wim Wenders

  Complaining, Hardship, Misery

  "Wim Wenders talks with WSWS: 'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.

  Jay-Z

  Thinking, Race, America

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• I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.

  Mick Jagger

  Thinking, Careers, Would Be

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• I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it.

  Quincy Jones

  Awards, Years, Brain

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• I'd love to see Christ come back to crush the spirit of hate and make men put down their guns. I'd also like just one more hit single.

  Tiny Tim

  Crush, Hate, Gun

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

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• They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.

  Victor Borge

  Funny, Humorous, Fire

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• PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Keys, Piano

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.224, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get the Indians to stop playing it.

  Victor Borge

  Humorous, Snakes, India

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• The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.

  Victor Borge

  Funny, Humorous, Player

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• When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Thinking, People, Suing

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• Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.

  Victor Borge

  Funny, War, Humorous

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• Kind words are the music of the world.

  Frederick William Faber

  Inspirational, Relationship, Kindness

  Frederick William Faber (1860). “Spiritual conferences”, p.32

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• Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

  Vance Packard

  Rocks, Hysteria, Rock N Roll

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• The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

  Irving Berlin

  Positive, Death, Song

  Title of song (1927)

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• I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

  Tom Stoppard

  Mean, Two, Twenties

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Tom Stoppard: plays”

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• Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.

  Herbie Hancock

  Real, Mean, Spirit

  "Herbie Hancock: All That's Jazz". "SoCal Connected" with Michael Okwu, www.kcet.org.

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• If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.

  Freddie Mercury

  Housewife, Terrible, Cooks

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

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• I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

  Hermann Hesse

  Thinking, Moral, Found

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• How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Enemy, Sound

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

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• The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

  B. B. King

  Mother, Source, American Music

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