Music Quotes - Page 39

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His Beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose - and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me.

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

Deep Listening is listening to everything all the time, and reminding yourself when you're not. But going below the surface too, it's an active process. It's not passive. I mean hearing is passive in that soundwaves hinge upon the eardrum. You can do both. You can focus and be receptive to your surroundings. If you're tuned out, then you're not in contact with your surroundings. You have to process what you hear. Hearing and listening are not the same thing.

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.

I am an observer of life, a non-participant who takes no sides. I am in the regimented society, but not of it.

Sometimes, music is like poop. It just has to come out.

There is music in all things, if men had ears.

I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

The way I look at a musical, you are commenting on the human condition no matter what you do. A musical may be light and frivolous, but by its very nature, it makes some kind of social comment.

We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident. But it seems their musical system differs from ours. It is another school....We are not familiar with their didactic works. Perhaps they don't have any.