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“For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening.”

People Kind Three Music Threatening Classical Music Benign Tenors Tumors

Author:Bernard Holland

“What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that condition, but Passion, Love, Desire itself, and in such infinitely varied phases as lie in her unique possession and are foreign and unknown to any other tongue...So...Here's to Victory, gained by our higher sense over the worthlessness of the vulgar! To Love, which crowns our courage...To the day, to the night!...And three cheers for Music.”

Source: Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays

“I don't know if I want to record together again. I go off and on it... In the old days, when we needed an album, Paul and I got together and produced enough songs for it. Nowadays, there's three of us writing prolifically and trying to fit it all into one album.”

Ifs Knows Want Writing Trying Enough Together Song Three Music Records Needed Fit Music Is Albums Old Days Together Again

Author:John Lennon

“In Paris in 1964 was the first time I ever heard Dylan at all. Paul got the record (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) from a French DJ. For three weeks in Paris we didn't stop playing it. We all went potty about Dylan.”

Firsts Three Music Records Heard Week First Time Paris Bob Dylan Djs Potty

Author:John Lennon

“It is agreed that all sound which is the material of music is of three sorts. First is harmonica, which consists of vocal music; second is organica, which is formed from the breath; third is rhythmica, which receives its numbers from the beat of the fingers. For sound is produced either by the voice, coming through the throat; or by the breath, coming through the trumpet or tibia, for example; or by touch, as in the case of the cithara or anything else that gives a tuneful sound on being struck.”

Giving Firsts Three Sound Voice Numbers Music Cases Example Materials Music Is Beats Thirds Breaths Fingers Throat Vocal Trumpets Harmonicas Seville Vocal Music

Author:Isidore of Seville

“If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.”

Ifs Knows Two Three Music Practice One Day Critics Guitar Two Days

Author:Jascha Heifetz

“Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.”

Two Film Three Language Music Universal Mathematics Jazz Musical Math Universal Language Math And Music

Book:The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography

Source: The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography

“I think there are only three things that America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music and baseball. They're the three most beautifully designed things this culture has ever produced.”

Thinking Years America Culture Three Known Music Study Civilization Baseball Constitution Jazz Musical Three Things Jazz Music

Author:Gerald Early

“Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.”

Years America Three Music History Hundred Years Ago Jazz Chains Jazz Music Funny Music

Author:Paul Whiteman

“Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop.”

Heart Seems Three Music Too Much Hip Hop Albums Pops Rap Hips Shops Hops Rapper Popularity Candy Closing Representing

Author:Phife Dawg

“I have been playing the piano for my entire life - since I was three.”

Has Beens Three Music Piano

Author:Robert Pattinson

“I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space for it but I don't push it. They just come and they come.”

Writing Years Sometimes Three Space Music Week Three Things

Author:David Crosby

“If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.”

Ifs Knows Life Two Three Music Practice Jazz Critics Jazz Music Two Days Jazz Musician Music Practice Jazz Band

Author:Louis Armstrong

“My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.”

Knows Giving Firsts Said Three Music Wife Guitar

Author:Jeff Beck

“There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.”

World Song Dies Three Born Music This World Determination Hopeful Three Things

Author:Miriam Makeba