Music Quotes - Page 96

Music is really driving my whole life.

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

I live my daydreams in music.

Whether it's animated, whether it's live-action, whether it's Broadway, whether it's television, a musical is a musical is a musical. So, pretty much you approach the songs in pretty much the same way. The difference might be that in a film you have a close up. On stage you don't. So there are more songs on the stage because the songs are kind of the close up.

To great sections of the church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the 'program.' This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us.

I started to study the flute in 1951. The flute has been utilized by African-American musicians as far back as the early Twenties. If you take a look at some of the old pictures of Chick Webb, then you will see the flute right there on the bandstand among the woodwinds.

All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

A mediocre music teacher tells. A good music teacher explains. A superior music teacher demonstrates. A great music teacher inspires.

I can spot a musical type. I can tell by looking at a woman whether she is a contralto or a soprano.

Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing.

Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.

When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.

Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.

If you are able to discover your own keynote or chord and play it over gently to yourself, you will revive as if by magic. Your keynote can be ascertained by listening to some good music. When the note is played it will send a thrill right through you.

Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.

The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there.

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.

Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.

All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.

The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels.

I am comforted by the assurance that there will be beautiful music in heaven, and for that I am most grateful.

Music can act upon our senses to produce or induce feelings of reverence, humility, fervor, assurance, or other feelings attuned to the spirit of worship.

I don't have any hobbies. Music is my hobby.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.