Music Quotes - Page 71

A blown-out tube ripped some of the grind from the amplifier, throwing us into a momentary tizzy. The unusual sound led me to play unusually, and the recorded take turned out to be a keeper. Insriration can come from the most unlikely places ... keep your head on and your ears open.

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

People say footballers have terrible taste in music but I would dispute that. In the car at the moment I've got The Corrs, Cher, Phil Collins, Shania Twain and Rod Stewart.

SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

It's just seems life without music would be death.

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.

Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.

I try not to discriminate against genres.

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation as music.

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

The music beckons to those who are listening.

When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity.

Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

But the difference between the little pieces and the big pieces - I'm not actually sure which are the little pieces. With some of the big pieces, it's a lot of musical running around, whereas the little pieces, you can say everything you want to say.

I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.

It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.