Music Quotes - Page 8

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.

I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.

I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power. A man could, with dignity and a towering majesty, dance. Not mince, cavort, do "fancy dancing" or "showoff" steps. No: Dance as Michelangelo's visions dance and as the music of Bach dances.

Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.

There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.

Music is the only thing keeping the planet together

Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in any other language. If we do not want these things to remain dead treasures, we must do our utmost to make the greatest possible number of people understand their idiom.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.

Don't be a prisoner of your own style!