Musical Quotes - Page 39

• [Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it.

  Kurt Elling

  Music, Singing, Jazz

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• Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.

  Quincy Jones

  Music, Kids, Upset

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• I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

  Tony Bennett

  Music, Thinking, Ties

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• Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

  Stanley Jordan

  Music, Circles, Genius

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• I also believe my musical abilities are a true gift from God.

  Wynonna Judd

  Believe, Musical Ability, Belive

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• How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured... No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer...

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Suicide, Weed, Marijuana

  "Marijuana - Assassin of Youth". The American Magazine, Volume 24, p. 18, July 1937.

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• When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive look at just how complicated and sometimes dangerous their everyday lives were. In fact, until the past ten years, many defined the period primarily by its well-known literary, musical, and artistic elements while overlooking the fact there was any political component to it at all.

  Aberjhani

  Reading, Past, Years

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• It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn't want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical.

  Satyajit Ray

  Home, Second Chance, Want

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.100, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.There are not more than five primary colors, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of them yield more flavors than can ever be tasted.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Yield

  Sun Tzu (2017). “The Art Of War - The Oldest Military Treatise in the World”, p.55, Youcanprint

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• There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, Art Of War, Giving

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• Silence is more musical than any song.

  Christina Rossetti

  Music, Song, Silence

  "Rest" l. 10 (1862)

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• In 1957, “West Side Story” had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; “Bye Bye Birdie,” set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side.

  John Lahr

  Goodbye, Sweet, Dark

  "Can’t Stop the Beat" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

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• Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, People

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.51, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.

  Tim Heidecker

  Mom, Sarcastic, Dad

  "Tim & Eric". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.

  Marion Cotillard

  Dream, Travel, Adventure

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• My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio.

  Rick Wakeman

  Travel, Adventure, Player

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• Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

  Eugenio Montale

  Art, Two, Paint

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• There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

  Claude Debussy

  Sunset, Sunrise, Mother Nature

  "The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music". Book by Don Michael Randel, 1996.

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• All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses to which they may be put, is as utterly meaningless and vain as to inquire whether a musical tone is red or yellow. No other conceivable relation than this between ideas and things can exist. The unknowable is what I cannot react upon. The active part of our nature is not only an essential part of cognition itself, but it always has a voice in determining what shall be believed and what rejected.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Truth, Real, Ideas

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• No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

  Billy Joel

  Music, Healing, Matter

  Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.rollingstone.com. November 06, 1986.

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• I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

  Elton John

  Movie, Music, Actors

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• We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Men, Virginia

  Mark Twain (1957). “Mark Twain of the Enterprise: newspaper articles & other documents, 1862-1864”

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• It was you that led me to the musical that's everything to me. You held my hands so that I can enter the world that I could only watch. When I fell, you helped me stand up. When the path was closed, you opened it up. You're that kind of person to me.

  Cheon Eunbi

  Drama, Hands, Watches

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• Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living.

  Kirke Mechem

  Inspirational, Funny, Music

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• I believe that from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause to exist a phonology of music, which evolves from the universal known as the harmonic series.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Inspiration, Believe, Earth

  "The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard".

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