Music Quotes - Page 49

A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

Life is but a dream for the dead.

The biggest thing for me is the new music. I'm playing a lot of new music that is not released yet on my tours. Seeing the reaction to that is super inspiring.

I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.

I woke up this morning, smiled at the rising sun.

Worship must be - Christ centered, Holy Spirit led, a Response to the Father, about Intimacy and Service and always lead to Transformation!

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some common bond makes the people of all lands take to Negro songs as their own.

Always look ahead, but never look back.

We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.

And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

Don't be a drag. Just be a queen.

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

Day in, day out. That same old voodoo follows me about.

It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.

It is agreed that all sound which is the material of music is of three sorts. First is harmonica, which consists of vocal music; second is organica, which is formed from the breath; third is rhythmica, which receives its numbers from the beat of the fingers. For sound is produced either by the voice, coming through the throat; or by the breath, coming through the trumpet or tibia, for example; or by touch, as in the case of the cithara or anything else that gives a tuneful sound on being struck.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.