Music Quotes
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If something can be explored or illuminated that would have been difficult to verbalize, that to me is what a film should be. It's like trying to explain what a piece of music is like. You can't do it.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.
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Although I do wish that females were given more of an opportunity on a musical level, beyond just singing.
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There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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Anti-parent music seems to be all the pop-rock market wants.
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Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music, but the truth is that life itself is music.
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I always related my favorite music to the movies.
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Nobody can hear you read music.
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Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.
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The music is not used repetitiously to create film atmosphere. It is, in fact, the leading character.
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I don't know where I would be without music. Even if I wasn't a musician, I think music is God. In a lot of ways, it's my saving grave. It's been my religion since I was a little kid.
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You are a 64-track recording - the tracks are always there, they're always with you. Sometimes the harsh tracks are cranked up and the rest are rolled down to zero. Other times the sweet tracks are high and the darkness is low. But it's all you.
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I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in the '60s.
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It really matters what you listen to. . . . Select music that will strengthen your spirit.
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In this Music the singing of the angels in harmony the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness.
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To me, music's something I can dance to or listen to. To write about it is always more of what the music represents, or what it reflects. Like an ideal song, to me, is a song that you can dance to, that summons up some darker and greater mystery.
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Music is the language of the heart without words.
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I really want to go to the opposite end of the spectrum and go super-special, super-intimate, super-creative, super-old school. It’s funny how many uphill battles you have to fight to get to do that. Getting them to let you play on the floor — like, I want to be on the floor, in a booth, and not looked at — not because I’m hiding. I want to provide people with this experience that I don’t think they necessarily get these days, which is just to be immersed in music and not be at a show, just to be at an event of dancing and immersion.
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Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!
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Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.
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Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions . . . Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.
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I don't like those songs where you have to listen to a story to get into them. I don't want to have to pay attention to music in that way, I just want it to hit me in the heart and do what music's supposed to do.
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I've always been hands on with my music and my movement.
