Music Quotes - Page 51

Good music always defeats bad luck

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love

Electronic music lends itself to an abstract way of storytelling, so it keeps evolving. Theres a whole movement truly driving music further and there is no other music innovating as much as film music

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

I'm gonna live till I die.

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

Worship the music, not the musicians.

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

Keep on listening & tapping your feet.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.

I felt that this is the only thing which helps me to have hope... a sort of religion, actually. Music is God.

Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.

Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.

Music is my life and my life is music.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.

I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all the arts combined. Students are always asking me for advice, and I tell them that they have to be enthusiastic, because it's hard work. The only way to enjoy it is to be totally immersed. If you don't get involved on that level, it could be a very miserable job. I only have one regret about my career: I'm sorry that we are not making silent movies any more. That is the purest art form I can imagine.

To work is to feel alive.

A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support