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 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
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  • 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
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• 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

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

  

  Hanns Eisler
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  • 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

• 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

• When I was younger I didn't really know what genre of music I'd want to do because I'd always done so many different types, so many impressions.

  

  Ben Barnes
  • Music
  • Different
  • Done

• For me, my number one priority always has to be the music, and I'm going to work school around my music - not music around my school.

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • Work
  • Music
  • School

• When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren't accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat.

  

  Jimmy Cliff
  • People
  • Music
  • Rock

• A lot of people record on a laptop and use plug-ins, which might be OK for the kind of music that they're doing. But for the kind of music that I'm doing, that just doesn't work. I can't cut corners; everything has to be organic.

  

  Adrian Younge
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.

  

  Jim Messina Buffalo Springfield
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Nice

• I like children - fried.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Children
  • Funny
  • Like

• Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Sky
  • Ends
  • Horizon

• Mr. Bergman was a man of great working discipline. He forced everyone to concentrate when it was important. No disturbing noise during rehearsal. A code of silence.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • Great
  • Important
  • Silence

• It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness. The king seems to understand this truth; as for myself, I know that in my whole life (even if I live for a hundred years) I shall never forget the day of the coronation.

  

  Marie Antoinette
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Images and physical sensations may deluge patients at this point, and the therapist must be familiar with ways to stem torrents of sensation and emotion to prevent them from becoming retraumatized by accessing the past.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Emotion
  • Images
  • Patients

• 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