Best music & emotion Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.”

Art Film Form Common Emotion Music Intellect

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you've got white, pick it where you've got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you'll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?”

Firsts Play Able Sound Black Differences White Emotion Music Color Picks Down And Notes Paint Guitar Extremes

Author:Les Paul

“To the large extent that music can organize our perceptions of our own bodies and emotions, it can tell us things about history that are not accessible through any other medium.”

Body Emotion Music Perception Mediums Organize

Book:Reading Music: Selected Essays

Source: Reading Music: Selected Essays

“Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions”

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Author:John Denver

“Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.”

Feelings Form Language Emotion Music Virtue Objects Music Is Structure Significant Symbols Significance Imports Sensuous

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.”

Purpose Emotion Music Music Is Having Hope Sentient Beings

Book:Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980

Source: Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980

“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”

Emotion Music Music Is Musical Classical Music Shorthand

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.”

Kind Stills Voice Emotion Music Decline Vocalist

Author:Tom Wopat

“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.”

Source: Miscellany

“Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.”

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”

Thinking Doe Bigs Poor Emotion Music Clever Sarcasm Sarcastic Think Big Repartee

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.”

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Author:Jimi Hendrix

“Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.”

Men Emotion Music Music Is Difficulty Jazz Musical Significance Shorthand

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions to fulfill what they feel the moment requires.”

Feels Moments Given Decision Emotion Music Conversation Musician Music Is Jazz Musical Scripts Splits Jazz Music Power Of Now

Book:Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life

Source: Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life

“Jazz music is a language of the emotions.”

Language Emotion Music Music Is Jazz Jazz Music

Author:Charles Mingus

“Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.”

Perfect Emotion Music Expression Activity Jazz Joyful Music Making

Author:Luciano Pavarotti

“Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.”

Love Important Feelings Emotion Music Materials Music Is Meaning Of Life Material Things

Author:Judy Collins

“Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.”

Love Emotion Music Emotional Musician Singing Experience Singers Supreme Music Love Loving Someone Physicality Music And Life Peak Experiences

Author:Janis Joplin

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