Music Quotes
- It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don’t happen. They must be constructed. … To demonstrate any formal idea in music, whether structure or stricture, is a matter of construction, in which the methodology is the controlling metaphor of the composition… Only by ‘unfixing’ the elements traditionally used to construct a piece of music could the sounds exist in themselves—not as symbols, or memories which were memories of other music to begin with. - View Quote Details on It appears to me that the subject of music, from…
- Orsino: If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it that, surfeiting,</br> The appetite may sicken and so die. - View Quote Details on Orsino: If music be the food of love, play on;… - In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side -— there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return. - View Quote Details on In order for music to free itself, it will have…
- It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can’t pigeonhole it to their satisfaction…Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody. - View Quote Details on It seems like people get afraid of a certain music…
- I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. - View Quote Details on I think I should have no other mortal wants, if…
- Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. - View Quote Details on Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook…
- The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer would be, “Yes.” And “Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?” My answer to that would be, “No.” - View Quote Details on The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,…
- Look, I’m a pop star… I’m very busy. I do not have time to learn how to play a musical instrument. - View Quote Details on Look, I’m a pop star… I’m very busy. I do…
- We must ask whether a cross-cultural musical universal is to be found in the music itself (either its structure or function) or the way in which music is made. By ‘music-making,’ I intend not only actual performance but also how music is heard, understood, even learned. - View Quote Details on We must ask whether a cross-cultural musical universal is to…
- There is only one better thing than music - live music. - View Quote Details on There is only one better thing than music - live…
- 2 A.M. and I’m still awake writing this song.
If I get it all down on paper, it’s no longer
Inside of me, threatenin’ the life it belongs to. - View Quote Details on 2 A.M. and I’m still awake writing this song… - Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see. If it’s not noble, then it’s not very good..Music is an art of emotion, of nobility, of dignity, of greatness, of love, of tenderness. All that must be brought out in music but never a show of pompousness. - View Quote Details on Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character…
- If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era’s perceptual habits.” - View Quote Details on If we compel the composer to write in terms of…
- “Music” includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats. - View Quote Details on “Music” includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission…
- The emphasis of study upon a particular aspect of music is in itself ideological because it contains implications about the music’s value. - View Quote Details on The emphasis of study upon a particular aspect of music…
- My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. - View Quote Details on My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often…
- The term ‘chromatic’ is understood by musicians to refer to music which includes tones which are not members of the prevailing scale, and also as a word descriptive of those individually non-diatonic tones. - View Quote Details on The term ‘chromatic’ is understood by musicians to refer to…
- Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. - View Quote Details on Take a music bath once or twice a week for…
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- Music is everything one listens to with the intention of listening to music. - View Quote Details on Music is everything one listens to with the intention of…
- My music is best understood by children and animals. - View Quote Details on My music is best understood by children and animals.
- Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - View Quote Details on Music is the only language in which you cannot say…
- We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer. - View Quote Details on We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps…
- The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, “Sometimes I just breathe you in.” - View Quote Details on The most important thing to me as a songwriter is…
- Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring in the bustle of our daily lives. I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm. - View Quote Details on Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should…
- My mother’s idol among pianists was Paderewski. I knew that I would never be a Paderewski, so I searched among the other great pianists of the day, looking for a model, and I found one at last who seemed to be just right for me. He was Vladimir de Pachmann. His style was refined, and so was mine. He was distinguished for the fact that especially in the works of Chopin he struck a great number of wrong notes. It was here that I knew I could rival him, and perhaps even excel him. You see, he struck his wrong notes in extremely rapid passages; I worked at my technique until I was certain that I could strike great numbers of wrong notes in very slow passages. - View Quote Details on My mother’s idol among pianists was Paderewski. I knew that…
- Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence. - View Quote Details on Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of…
- Music is what I love and it’s what I feel and it’s in me and to know that I can do something that I enjoy and hopefully bring some enjoyment to other people through is an incredible felling and I am just really thankful for it. - View Quote Details on Music is what I love and it’s what I feel…
- Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. - View Quote Details on Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy…
- Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. - View Quote Details on Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have…
- Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it, everything is a blank slate. - View Quote Details on Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without…
- …I think, fundamentally, music is something inherently people love and need and relate to, and a lot of what’s out right now feels like McDonalds. It’s quick-fix. You kind of have a stomachache afterwards. - View Quote Details on …I think, fundamentally, music is something inherently people love and…
- I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to. - View Quote Details on I don’t know anything about music. In my line you…
- But then there’s a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it’s all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument. - View Quote Details on But then there’s a moment like tonight, a profound and…
- The only thing to rely on is music, as it is the only thing that will be there when you need it. - View Quote Details on The only thing to rely on is music, as it…
About Music
Music is an art form that involves sounds and silence. Music may be used for artistic or aesthetic, communicative, entertainment, or ceremonial purposes. The definition of what constitutes music varies according to culture and social context.
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