Music Quotes - Page 45

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?

What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?

You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.

I use too much of my brain and need to let some of it rest.

For me, music begins where words end.

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

Women and rhythm-section first!?

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

You don't decide you're hip. It just happens that way.

I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

Music gives a soul to the universe.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.