Musical Quotes

• My musical ambitions are not that great. I make music I like, and thankfully - for my ability to make an (fairly...) honest living - at least some others like the music too.

  

  Varg Vikernes Burzum
  • Ambition
  • Ability
  • Honest

• Another way of working is setting deliberate constraints that aren't musical ones - like saying, "Well, this piece is going to be three minutes and nineteen seconds long and it's going to have changes here, here and here, and there's going to be a convolution of events here, and there's going to be a very fast rhythm here with a very slow moving part over the top of it." Those are the sort of visual ideas that I can draw out on graph paper. I've done a lot of film music this way.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Long
  • Musical
  • Deliberate

• As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief business, the occupation and aim of life. For me it is a relaxation, a pastime which distracts me from my principal business, my professorship. I love my profession and my science. I love the Academy and my pupils, male and female, because to direct the work of young people, one must be close to them.

  

  Alexander Borodin
  • Life
  • Musical
  • Composer

• Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Meditation
  • Limits
  • Philosopher

• How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Musical
  • Chances
  • Serial Killer

• There was a time when hip-hop was its own musical principle, aside from sampling. Like the entire Wild Style break is instrumental. Kurtis Blow's earliest stuff was studio musicians playing. Whodini had a real clear sound, things like "five minutes of funk," stuff that you could write really beautiful, lush string and horn arrangements around, stuff that was just music.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.

  

  Andrew S. Gilbert
  • Jazz
  • Transform
  • Styles

• I am very proud of my musical growth and contributions to the band in the last four years. I have nothing but positive thoughts and feelings towards John, Mike, James, and John. Jordan Rudess is a friend of mine and a great talent. I wish all of them the very best!

  

  Derek Sherinian Black Country Communion
  • Wish
  • Proud
  • Growth

• My definition of Blues is that it's a musical form which is very disciplined and structured coupled with a state of mind, and you can have either of those things but it's the two together that make it what it is. And you need to be a student for one, and a human being for the other, but those things alone don't do it.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Mind
  • Together
  • Students

• For three days this summer, people will come to Chicago to witness musical history in real time.

  

  Perry Farrell Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • History
  • Chicago

• Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Style

• I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My music was enough to say what I had to say.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Art
  • Political
  • Decision

• I'd like to make all different kinds of movies. I don't think it would make sense though for my second film to walk straight into a musical even though I'd like to.

  

  David Michod
  • Different
  • Movies
  • Make

• We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.

  

  Bent Sæther
  • Musical
  • Hamsters

• It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn't want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical.

  

  Satyajit Ray
  • Home
  • Kind
  • Film

• The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Scripture
  • Lines
  • Prose

• I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.

  

  Shinichi Suzuki
  • Talent
  • Ability
  • Conclusion

• We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations will be branded as the home base for inspired musical talent.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Home
  • Artist
  • Inspired

• I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms, he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.

  

  Trevor Rabin Cinema
  • Important
  • Emotional
  • Enemy

• I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.

  

  Bela Fleck Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • Thinking
  • Evolution
  • Musical

• Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Time
  • Family
  • Business

• "I love you," he said, his voice almost musical with happiness. She shot him a scowl. "Isn't saying that a bit dangerous considering these aren't wooden swords and the ends aren't even taped?" He laughed.

  

  Christie Craig
  • She
  • Voice
  • Love You

• We worked very hard on that untitled record to do something different and that we were proud of and to try a bunch of different ideas. It was like this gigantic musical laboratory that we were going to every day. I love that record, I think that's one of the high watermarks of us as a band.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• We are appalled at the poor taste behind the decision to present this musical at the site where Jews were enslaved and killed.

  

  Abraham Foxman
  • Musical
  • Jews
  • Killed

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