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“Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life.”
“Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.”
Source: The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard
“Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.”
Source: Gustav Holst, letters to W. G. Whittaker
“music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787
“Music, especially as an adolescent, helps to build identity because that's when people start developing a sense of self. You can kind of tell based on what music a person listens to what kind of person they'll be pretty much for the rest of their life.”
“Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.”
“Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something; this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, the esthetic event.”
“Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you dont fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.”
“Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music. Everything traveled by song. It was used to teach ethics. It was used to create conscience, probably more than anything.”
“Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be.”
“Music, for the moment, has been this hidden thing for me. For the first time, I am master of something. I am not used by someone else, like in movies or pictures, where you always have the happiness or disappointment of knowing it's you seen through someone else's point of view. You go to see a film and half of the pretty scenes are not in it-the ones you liked. Living with this frustration all the time, suddenly music came as the best thing for me at home, where no one can tell you anything.”
“Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect.”
“Music, great music, distends the spirit, arouses profound emotions and almost naturally invites us to raise our minds and hearts to God in all situations of human existence, the joyful and the sad. Music can become prayer.”
“Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.”
“Music, I find, gets you out of a trap [when screenwriting], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing, it's not concerned with plot or story. And so music really helps - often I'll listen to the music and just write anything, just to get through.”
“Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.”
Source: Selected Writings
“Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for sex and not quite ready to meet God. It has always been an essential part of me.”
“Music, I think, he makes me feel like music”
“Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.”
“Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure.”
“Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades...I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls.”
“Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.”
Source: Real Frank Zappa Book
“Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.”
“Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.”
Source: Merman: an autobiography
“Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.”
“Music, it's an emotion; if you're just a puppet, how can you put your soul in what you do? For my part, I believe that I put my soul to it, so I get angry when people think that what I do is plastic.”
“Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one. "The only people who can see the whole picture," he murmured, "are the ones who step out of the frame."”
“Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.”
“Music, Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Alexander's Feast”
“Music, not being made up of objects nor referring to objects, is intangible and ineffable; it can only be as it were inhaled by the spirit: the rest is silence.”
“Music, not sex, got me aroused.”
“Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.”
“Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.”
“Music, of almost any kind, always made sense to me.”
“Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.”
“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”
“Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.”
“Music, somehow, breaks through, to everybody.”
“Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.”
“Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.”
“Music, the greatest good that mortals know,
And all of heaven we have below.
Music can noble hints impart,
Engender fury, kindle love;
40 With unsuspected eloquence can move,
And manage all the man with secret art.
When Orpheus strikes the trembling lyre
The streams stand still, the stones admire;
The listening savages advance,
The world and lamb around him trip
The bears in aukward measures leap,
And tigers mingle in the dance
The moving woods attended as he played
And Rhodope was left without a shade.”
“Music, the knife without a hilt.”
Source: Checkmate: The Lymond Chronicles Book Six
“Music, the mosaic of the air.”
Source: The Poems of Andrew Marvell
“Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be holding us back, and join that flowing river.”
Source: The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self
“Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.”
Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography
“Music, to me, if it's good, it's good. That's all that matters.”
“Music, to me, is not math or science. It is a language.”
“Music, to me, is the most beautiful form, and I love film because film is very related to music. It moves by you in its own rhythm. It's not like reading a book or looking at a painting. It gives you its own time frame, like music, so they are very connected for me. But music to me is the biggest inspiration. When I get depressed, or anything, I go "think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!" So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?”
“Music, to me, is the most beautiful form, and I love film because film is very related to music. It moves by you in its own rhythm... Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?”
“Music, to me, was - is - representative of everything I like most in life. It's beautiful and fun, but very rigorous. If you wanted to be good you had to work like crazy. It was a real relationship between effort and reward. My musical life experiences were just as important to me, in terms of forming my development, as my political experiences or my academic life.”