Playing Music Quotes - Page 3

• I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.

  Aaron Copland

  Music, Wisdom, Stress

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• I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.

  Xavier Cugat

  Inspirational, Swimming, Play

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• All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Music, Song, Essence

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.247

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• There is music in all things, if men had ears.

  Lord Byron

  Music, Men, Ears

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.316, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Marriage, Work

  Music Is My Mistress act 8 "Pedestrian Minstrel" (1973)

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• You are the music while the music lasts.

  T. S. Eliot

  Music, Dope, Jazz And Life

  Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 5 (1941)

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• A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Inspirational, Music, Art

  Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.

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• Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

  Jean Paul

  Funny, Music, Night

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• And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Music, Night, Poetry

  "The Day Is Done" st. 11 (1844)

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• My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Music, Witty

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• It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Music, Taken, Play

  Quoted in N Hentoff Jazz Is (1978).

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• Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Music, Lying, Tired

  'The Lotos-Eaters' (1832) Choric Song, st. 1

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• Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

  Oscar Wilde

  Music, Art, Memories

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.88, Wordsworth Editions

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• Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

  Confucius

  Music, Wisdom, Art

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• Music is the universal language of mankind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Music, Appreciation, Teacher

  1835 OutreMer. Also attributed to Christopher North (1865-1954).

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• You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)

  Oscar Levant

  Music, Trying, Movement

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  If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

  Keith Richards

  Guitar, Rock And Roll, Rocks

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• Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

  Charlie Parker

  Motivational, Music, Humorous

  "Words of Wisdom". Book edited by William Safire and Leonard Safir, p. 435, 1990.

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• The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

  Artur Schnabel

  Funny, Music, Art

  Quoted in Chicago Daily News, 11 June 1958

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• It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.

  Victor de Laprade

  Music, Piano, Infinite

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• If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Music, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.257, Penguin

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• My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.

  Liberace

  Music, Spiritual, Struggle

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• The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Funny, Music, Joy

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• The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception.  All you can do is play melody.  No matter how complicated it gets, it's still a melody.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Play, Voice

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