“Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record, writing, music a stimulant of the highest order, far more potent than wine.” WritingOrderSoundMusicRecordsHighestSittingWineStudiosTonightWriting MusicStimulantsSound Of MusicMusic Writing Author:Anais Nin
“The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud.” MusicMusicianSittingInstrumentsDancingCloudsHarpsParlorInsipidFeasting Author:Mason Cooley
“Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.” YearsChildrenMotherMusicFeetMusicianSingingSittingPianoStringsDuskVistas Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.” TryingStillsHappensSongMusicSittingGuitarPianoSitting Down Author:Paul McCartney
“Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.” IfsWorldWayGivingRealityJoyVoiceWaterMusicTearsSorrowMountainLaughterSittingCloudsWoodsHillsLakesContemplatingNew WaysTranquilUnrestLamentationMountain Lakes Author:Albert Schweitzer
“We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems.” WorldLifeDreamSeemsMusicForeverSeaMoonSittingWanderStreamsMakersLoserDreamerPaleLoneGleamDesolateShakersMovers And Shakers Author:Arthur O'Shaughnessy
“It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting for dinner, and listening to the blues.” PeopleYearsWaitingRoomsMusicListeningHappeningsSittingDinnerTrappedBlues Music Author:James A. Baldwin
“I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.” KnowsWritingIdeasGivenMusicTalentSittingGuitarBest ThingsSongwritingSitting AroundGod Given Talents Author:Charlie Daniels