George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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• If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
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• One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
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• It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.

  

  Xavier Dolan
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• I'm really at ease in being me and going all around the world playing music. But I do get a lift once we start. I'm humming stuff in the dressing room and smiling, looking at myself and making sure I don't have nose hair! But once I get really close to the stage, and the guys are doing the intro thing, I do get a pick-me-up.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Up
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• Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

  

  Faith Hill
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• I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Theater

• Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Good
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• But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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  • Important
  • Culture

• You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Music
  • War
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• Where words fail, music speaks.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
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• I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Life
  • Music
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• The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Music

• Just because I make something doesn't mean that it's going to be amazing, and most creative people don't like to admit when their music is just okay.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • People
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• I love country music.

  

  Eric Close
  • Music
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• But back then the thing that saved me was the music, and it's certainly the music that saves me now. The music, my family and my friends and everybody around me.

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Music
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• I've grown up in a small town, and I played a lot of sports, so it was always between music and sports. People would ask me, 'What would you choose?' And I was always like, 'I don't know.'

  

  Brynn Cartelli
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• Well, I think it's kind of interesting how the Osmond name has been really seen on both sides of the pendulum. There's obviously the bubblegum side, but for people who really know about music, it's clear on the other side. As a matter of fact, I find it quite ironic that Metallica used to cover 'Crazy Horses.' It was a cutting-edge album.

  

  Donny Osmond
  • People
  • Music
  • Interesting

• In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Good
  • Music
  • Home

• If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.

  

  Algernon Sidney
  • May

• The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Music
  • Theory
  • Effect