Music Quotes - Page 114

I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer.

Music is sonorous air.

I am a Jew, Israel is a Jewish state. . . . Israel’s case is my case, Israel’s enemies are my enemies, and I do not want to be spared the troubles which Israeli musicians encounter when they represent the Jewish state beyond its borders.

Man, if anybody knew the path that we've been on, no one in their right mind would ever try to duplicate it. That's something Nashville always tries to do, though. If something is successful, they try to repeat it by telling other people, "Hey, do what that guy did." I just don't think it works that way. The first one who gest there, the one that cuts the path ... it's always the roughest path but I think it's got the most reward at the end.

In some ways, comedy and something like a musical do go hand-in-hand.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

Songs are more powerful than books.

I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.

I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.

I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

Silence is Golden; it has divine power and immense energy. Try to pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to be. It is an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, and every word. The unmanifested is present in this world as silence. All you have to do is pay attention to it.

The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself.

There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.

I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.

It's like an act of murder - you play with intent to commit something.

I don't want to follow the map of what the music industry does because I've already lived the industry and I still live the industry so I already understand how it works. The industry doesn't really like us around anyway once we get older because we know too much so, that's fine - cut us off - and we'll find another way to get it out there.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music.

I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan

The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.