Music Quotes - Page 60

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

Music is the soundtrack to my life.

Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers, ... It keeps me young and reminds me where I came from. Teaching young artists is like giving water to a flower.

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

Where words leave off, music begins.

The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst.

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul.

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.

New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line, there are large numbers of people who lead a meager existence. They want to find a little escape from the hardships of life, and come and watch something colorful and exciting and musical. Indian cinema provides that. So yes, the content of our television and our cinema is escapist in nature because we are there to provide entertainment.

Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!

You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.