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“I like to capture moments. It's like a photograph. Ten years from now you look at the photograph and you don't remember it but rather the whole week or month around the photo.”

Years Looks Whole Moments Remember Music Week Months Ten Photograph Capture

Author:Keren Ann

“Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution.”

Years Looks Remember Certain Music Painting Months Music Is Execution

Author:Robert Genn

“Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa Who knows most, knows least.”

Knows Wells Remember Music Fine Essence Horse Posts Compare Melody Italian Hacks Racers Italian Proverb

Book:Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke: in Verbindung mit den Mozartstädten, Augsburg, Salzburg und Wien

Source: Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke: in Verbindung mit den Mozartstädten, Augsburg, Salzburg und Wien

“At concerts, for me, the orchestra was like a painter. It flooded me with all the colours of the rainbow. If the violin came in by itself, I was suddenly filled with gold and fire, and with red so bright I could not remember having seen it on any object.”

Ifs Remember Music Fire Objects Red Gold Filled Painter Colour Concerts Rainbow Orchestra Violin

Author:James Elkins

“My life with the Beatles had become a trap... I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days; if I hadn't said that the Beatles were 'bigger than Jesus' and upset the very Christian Ku Klux Klan, well, Lord, I might still be up there with all the other performing fleas! God bless America. Thank you, Jesus.”

Ifs Wells Said Stills Ends Might Christian America Remember Jesus Music Lord Music Is Bigger Performing Upset Bless Traps Touring God Bless Fleas Ku Klux Klan God Bless America

Author:John Lennon

“And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.”

Remember Song Music Fire Fine Musician Singing Admire Broads Roadside

Book:The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.”

Funny Remember Black Born Music Happened Birth Nightlife

Author:Jim Morrison

“When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.”

Remember Death Song Dies Turns Music Inspirational Music Sheffield

Book:Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To

Source: Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To

“Give me a shot to remember And you can take all the pain away from me A kiss and I will surrender The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead A light to burn all the empires So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be And I'm in love with all of those vampires So you can leave like the sane abandoned me”

Giving Light Pain Remember Music Sun Kissing Shots Give Me Surrender Vampire Ashamed Empires Abandoned Sane

Author:Gerard Way

“In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.”

Needs Writing Funny Remember Order Music Tunes Songwriting

Author:Robert Schumann

“Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.”

I Can Remember Music Music Is Jazz Burden

Author:Nina Simone

“When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.”

Remember Parent Music England Jazz Radio Broke Disapproval

Author:Jeff Beck

“Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.”

Remember Powerful Music Records Movement Bob Promoting Dylan Powerful Music

Author:Seth Godin

“What I think I do is to relate any new material to how similar it is to something else. The closest that I can come up with something that's already in my experience, the easier it becomes. All I have to do then is remember where it differs, like relating a chord sequence that comes from some other tune, or several different tunes, or maybe parts of them and then work it from there.”

Thinking I Can Different Remember Music Materials Easier Come Up Relate Tunes Working It Closest Sequence Chords

Author:Tal Farlow