Edward Gardner Quotes
This opera has got that, but it's got a huge range of other amazing lyrical moments, for the chorus, the orchestra and the soloists. It's the variety of the music in it that is almost the hardest thing about conducting it.
Edward Gardner
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I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.
Oscar Hijuelos
Everyone assumes it is just 'Wendy who works at Tesco' who goes to audition for 'X Factor,' and then their lives are changed, wham, like that. Me, I am someone who has tried for years in the music industry.
Fleur East
This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.
Ian Williams
Battles
Where words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Andersen
The right, uplifted foreleg of the horse Suggested that, at the final funeral, The music halted and the horse stood still.
Wallace Stevens
Music is the great cheer-up in the language of all countries.
Clifford Odets
I never want to cut music ever again that I'm just kind of into, because we definitely didn't do that in the beginning.
Charles Kelley
Lady Antebellum
I'm always writing. And, I mean, I always counsel people when they call me a musician: I really do not have the skills of a musician. I really don't think like a musician, though I love music and I perform and sing.
Patti Smith
I don't need music to write, but sometimes I put music on. I don't need special clothes or even my own equipment.
Jane Lindskold
As a musician, you want the music in as many hands as you can get it into. More importantly, I want people to get the music for the fairest price, and in the most convenient way. And that's really turned into iTunes when you're talking about selling albums.
Robert James Ritchi
I think that's what makes my music different from other artists in my lane is that I write every word that's on my album, and every word comes from a real experience or a real feeling that I've either experienced or felt. And I'm very particular about that, and I take a lot of pride in it, so you know if I say something on a song, I mean it.
Mike Posner
I think it's pretty stupid to write off an entire genre of anything. It's one thing to say 'I don't like country music.' But it's pretty narrow minded to say 'All country music sucks.' Of course, that being said, all short-form improv sucks.
Matt Besser
My music has always been strong in melodic content.
Chuck Mangione
Positive energy is meant to give people confidence and hope, encourage people to love their country, society and life, as well as to pursue nice things. Everything we do is ultimately for the sake of spreading positive energy.
Lu Wei
The same parents can raise a dreamy, reflective girl and a driven, competitive one-the job is not to nurse her nature but to help elicit the essential opposite: to help the dreamy one to be a little more driven, the competitive one to be a little more reflective. The one artisanal, teachable thing is outer conduct.
Adam Gopnik
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
Philip Massinger
This opera has got that, but it's got a huge range of other amazing lyrical moments, for the chorus, the orchestra and the soloists. It's the variety of the music in it that is almost the hardest thing about conducting it.
Edward Gardner
