Music Quotes - Page 121

I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks

Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house

The great Initiates in the spirit world have vast and imposing plans for the musical future. What is this plan? It is to use music as an occult medium through which to develop altered states of consciousness, psychic abilities, and contact with the spirit world. Music in the future is to be used to bring people into yet closer touch with the devils; they will be enabled to partake of the beneficial influence of these beings while attending concerts at which by the appropriate type of sound they have been invoked.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

Musical acts that feign enthusiasm for what they're doing the guitarist who jumps up and down, like it's choreographed are so transparently vacuous.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in the charts - I watch 'Come Together' (the flip side) because that's my song.

It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.

The world went mad and used us as an excuse.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film.

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

The still, sad music of humanity.

God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned All perfect combinations, and he made Us so that we could hear and understand.

I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to do musical theatre.

Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.