Music Quotes - Page 5

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

I want longevity; I love music, being a musician is the greatest gift in the world to me, and if I were to get signed to a label, my family and team around me are always gonna be there to make sure they want the very best for me. My fans are what it's all about.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Music is pretty much in my blood and it's definitely in my environment.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

We can mention only one point (which experience confirms), namely, that next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. No greater commendation than this can be found — at least not by us. After all, the gift of language combined with the gift of song was only given to man to let him know that he should praise God with both word and music, namely, by proclaiming [the Word of God] through music.

I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me.

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

What we play is life.

Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for he has no right to a single note of the whole seven. Every note, and every strain, and every harmony is divine, and belongs to us.

What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the changes of time, and - more's the pity- the fashions of time, only that which is good and true will endure like a rock and no wanton hand will ever venture to defile it. Then, let every man do that which is right, strive with all his might towards the goal which can never be obtained, develop to the last breath the gifts with which the gracious Creator has endowed him, and never cease to learn. For life is short, art eternal.

Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.