Charles Gounod Quotes

This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.

Charles Gounod

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• I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Music
  • Help
  • Career

• I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.

  

  K. Flay
  • World
  • Music
  • Chaos

• I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Different
  • Kind

• I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I think music docs could turn off some people.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Real

• I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Music
  • Art
  • Think

• My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Time
  • Music
  • Dad

• You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Music
  • Black
  • Rock

• Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Music
  • Voice
  • Race

• Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.

  

  Hanns Eisler
  • Music
  • Nothing
  • Someone

• I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Write
  • Situation

• Where words fail, music speaks.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Music
  • Words
  • Where

• If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• I don't know if it's because I grew up in Beverly or my friends, but I listened to a lot of alternative rock music. I loved Incubus, Weezer and Jimmy Eat World. It almost felt segregated because I loved all of those acts over here, but then I also loved R&B and soul music I grew up with.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Up
  • World
  • Music

• There was always music playing in the house. I started singing at three, like my sisters did. When I was around four, we decided to put together a group and had so much fun with it.

  

  China Anne McClain
  • Music
  • Together
  • Fun

• All me and my brother knew was sports - music was never something I ever really thought of.

  

  Chris Lane
  • Music
  • Sports
  • Brother

• You have to make time for fans, and you really need to appreciate them. You have to remember that if they weren't buying, playing, or streaming your music, you wouldn't be in the charts, and people wouldn't be hearing your music.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

  

  Kelly Osbourne
  • Up
  • Music
  • Done

• When you travel on a bus with guys who love all kinds of music, you get exposed to some great stuff, man.

  

  Gregg Allman
  • Great
  • Music
  • Travel

• At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Time

• My mother and sister must be very happy to be home with God, and I am sure their love and prayers are always with me. When I go home to God, for death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Prayer

• This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.

  

  Charles Gounod
  • Music
  • Ecstasy
  • Ascetic