Ezra Pound Quotes

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

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• I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Music
  • Start

• I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Music
  • Country
  • Fate

• Country music is three chords and the truth.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Music
  • Country
  • Truth

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • People
  • Music
  • Family

• The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Music
  • You
  • Influence

• The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Music
  • Together
  • Soul

• It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • Rap
  • Goddess

• Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Feel

• Generally, I'm not writing about genomes or anything like that. But people underestimate the creativity you use in science and the rigor you need in music. They basically have the same path.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• And clenching your fist for the ones like us who are oppressed by the figures of beauty, you fixed yourself, you said, 'Well never mind, we are ugly but we have the music.'

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Ugly

• Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Music

• Country's hip; it's cool music.

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • Music
  • Country
  • Cool

• I'm naturally sort of a sad person, and that comes out in my music, but when I realized how many people were listening to it... I wanted to be a little more conscious about what I was putting out and what people were going to be taking from it.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Music
  • History

• I thought I'd use music to confront the problems that I faced, and it helped. I found a more healing mindset, and it did rejuvenate me.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Music
  • Healing
  • Mindset

• I love music, from shanty sea-songs to Calvin Harris.

  

  Brian McDermott
  • Music
  • Sea

• You have to be careful not to make music something you don't want to do. Which happens. I've gotten off the road and been like, 'I hate it. I hate singing, I hate playing guitar.' Six days later, I'm in my bedroom singing at the top of my lungs because I love it so much.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • Music
  • Hate
  • Singing

• You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Good
  • Music
  • Why

• When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, cool and sweet as music over water but strong enough to shake the woods. And I said to myself, 'If that's not the Horn, call me a rabbit.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Music
  • Strong
  • Water

• All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Art
  • Autobiography
  • Oyster

• Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Music
  • Poets
  • Not Interested