M Quotes
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“Music and the arts feed our souls, but a decent wage puts food on the table. Musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations are a potent force to fight for social justice.”
“Music and the music business are two different things.”
“Music and time have such an interesting relationship. Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from another moment of your life and it really is like you're still there. That's why the music of our youth ends up being particularly powerful. The coming of age music that you grab a hold of as the symbol or the expression of your independence and hopes for the future and anger and rebellion or whatever it is you're feeling is so powerful for the rest of your life when you hear it.”
“Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music.”
“Music and weed go well together, obviously.”
“Music and writing do fold together in the sense that you have to have a certain level of skill in order to execute your ideas and you need a medium. The idea of improvisation is one that many writers fall into, and I improvise a great deal when I'm writing, but there's a structural framework that I'm working around, and that takes more time than the actual writing. Once the characters get to yapping and talking, they'll move from one room to the next, and I just have to make sure that the house is built. That's really hard, that's the kind of thing that sits with you all day long.”
“Music and yoga have a great synergy.”
“Music appeals to me for what can be done with it.”
“Music appeared later. At first I was making people laugh with my funny stories. Live and on TV too. It was great, but I started to think that people will soon get bored from it. I have said to myself: "If you are going to go on being a superstar, you have to sing!"”
“Music arrives when the Muse comes around.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.”
“Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.”
Source: The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, East and West
“Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.”
“Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us--beyond language--to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.”
“Music at its essence is what gives us memories.”
“Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.”
“Music attracts the angels in the universe.”
Source: Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews
“Music awakens my spirit.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Music became a healer for me.”
Source: Clapton: The Autobiography
“Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.”
Source: Clapton: The Autobiography
“Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.”
“Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.”
“music became my refuge and then my salvation.”
“Music becomes very personal. When you marry a message you want to send out into the world with good music, all of a sudden you have a very potent way of delivering your message.”
“Music before all else,
and for that choose the irregular,
which is vaguer and melts better into the air.”
“Music begins and ends in the air - it's got to be shared.”
“Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.”
“Music begins where the possibilities of language end.”
“Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.”
“Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Music being “good or bad” is a flawed idea. Artists make what they want to make and we either connect with it or we don't. Just because we relate to some songs more than others doesn't make the others less valid, we just don't understand them. In fact, we aren't meant to, and that's all right.”
“Music belongs to everybody. Having a little clique of the industry tell us what our culture is... I don't think that's healthy. And the Internet is helping us get away from that.”
“Music breaks my heart constantly.”
“Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.”
“Music [brings] a sense of wonder, connecting us with the next world, our future life, a ladder, a means of ascent and harmony between soul and its creator...[Causes] tears of longing that lift you out of this world of dust and daily cares.”
“Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“Music brings life to my soul.”
“Music, brings the soul alive.
Music promotes wellness and sound mind.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Music builds a wall around us against anything that can upset us and simultaneously it builds a bridge for us to cross to the land of happiness!”
“Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all fused together. Joley seemed as wild and turbulent s the sea, yet beneath her fiery passion, at the very core of her, she was as forceful and strong and as constant as the deepest ocean currents. Ilya seemed as calm as a windless sea, yet beneath the surface smoldered a volcano of such explosive magnitude, his power could easily sweep everything from his path. Together they completed each other, his melody and hers merging together into a single, perfect harmony.”
“Music business is hard. It's very difficult. And it's not for everyone. Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin.”
“Music business is not for everyone. But if you have it in you, you have that passion, if you have that energy in you that you really want to make something creative and make something that's going to impact the world, then go for it, do it and don't let anybody tell you no.”
“Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.”
“Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought.”
“Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex.”
“Music came as the best thing for me at home, where no one can tell you anything. For years I was so closed, wanting to do it exactly like I had it in my head, because this would be the only place that was superpersonal.”
“Music came first and I started to jam with people I couldn't communicate in their language. Then, because I could make friends thanks to music, they started to talk to me. Then I started to learn English.”
“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.”
Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.”
“Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.”