Music Quotes
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There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.
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Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me.
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I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music. Left with only knowledge, they will at the end close their books and consign the course to forgetfulness. But if they have learned to love but the smallest part of the art, they are likely to pursue some phase of it the rest of their lives.
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I had a couple of really cool friends when I was a kid, and we'd find cool music and movies and show them to each other. My friend Dennis had a copy of 'A Clockwork Orange' and he'd already seen it once, and he was like, 'We need to watch this.' I was sleeping over his house - and I think we were literally 15 - and we watched it.
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Someone like Mozart moves from Salzburg to Vienna, where all of the sudden he finds this musical city that is not only asking for music, it's demanding music of him.
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I always related my favorite music to the movies.
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Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.
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Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
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Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.
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Making music should not be left to the professionals.
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What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.
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Our plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.
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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written.
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The awards are voted for by progressive rock fans, so it gives us an indication of where we stand within our genre. We are very lucky that some people like our music enough to want to vote for it. We are especially delighted that our music makes a strong connection with some people.
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I really love music but I've always wanted to act.
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Music is a creative endeavor so I feel the business around it should be creative, too. One size doesn't have to fit all.
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The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.
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My goal with this music is that people feel filled up by it. I hope they have a little bit more hope in their tank when they finish listening to it.
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It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
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The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.
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I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.
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It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.
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I became a musician to be free, and freedom means pursuing your musical interests. So if you were tied to be in a band only, that probably would be too restrictive.
