Best sound & musician Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?”

Knows Feels Should Two Individual Sound Musician

Author:Dave Grohl

“How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?”

Reading Sound Imagination Music Musician Musical Score Strings Flutes Oboes

Book:Consciousness Explained

Source: Consciousness Explained

“Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.”

Kind Play Would Be Able Wanted Sound Musician Decided Abstract Fabric Repetition Fragments Experimentation

Author:Terry Riley

“I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.”

Sound Seeing Listening Musician Gains Edges Distinctive Listening To Others

Author:Bill Frisell

“We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline has disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like if the strings on the musician's instrument were all hanging loose, not stretched tight, not disciplined?”

Ifs Way Facts Today Christian Faces Sound Church Results Attitude Liberty Discipline Musician Instruments Luxury Strings Preacher Solo Careless Violin

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Ultimately, what we do as musicians, I think of us as a type of emotional engineer. We essential take these sound waves, this sound, and we organize it into emotion, and that's how we connect with our audiences.”

Thinking Sound Emotion Audience Emotional Type Essentials Musician Wave Engineers Organize Sound Waves

Author:Stefon Harris

“I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride yourself on having your own distinct sound.”

People Needs Writing Believe Able Young Sound Voice Pride Musician Just Believe

Author:Terry McMillan

“Music proposes. Sound disposes.”

Sound Music Musician Propose

Book:The Collected Poems

Source: The Collected Poems

“Okay, you can stay at home and Spotify, or YouTube, or you can get off your ass and come listen to what real musicians making real music sound like. And, hey, it doesn't have to be me, but if I'm in town, then yeah, you should definitely check me out.”

Ifs Should Real Home Sound Musician Okay Towns Yeah Checks Ass Hey Youtube Stay At Home Real Music Spotify

Author:Nicholas Payton

“The most important thing for the conductor is that he or she listens. Her listening will make things sound a certain way. If the conductor listens well, the musicians listen each other better. The conductor can in effect impose a certain kind of listening for everybody.”

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Author:Laurence Equilbey

“Like many musicians, I can hear the weight in the sound. Sound is matter. We speak of the colour of an instrument, of transparency... We can demand more sombre or lighter colours, deeper playing and singing, heavier or lighter sound. And manipulating those means is like creating a painting.”

Mean I Can Matter Speak Sound Painting Demand Creating Musician Singing Weight Instruments Deeper Colour Transparency Lighters

Author:Laurence Equilbey

“How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of the voice but it's also important to me, in the case of [playing] someone who is controversial, to get the outlines of the character right because how they present themselves to the world has a great deal to do with how people feel about them.”

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Author:Meryl Streep

“A lot of times I use live musicians, but I don't want it to have that live funky sound so I'll just take the best loop of a drum part and repeat it over and over and over again so that there's consistency and it feels a little bit more programmed. But I have a love/hate relationship with comping as well.”

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Author:Solange Knowles

“The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years.”

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Author:Oscar Hammerstein II

“For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexibleorder gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves.... I would like to hole them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stooping one, there would only remain in may hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions.”

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Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.”

Soul Sound Music Honest Musician Music Is Good Things Hypocrisy Bully Hogwash

Book:Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn

Source: Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn

“A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.”

Art Artist Sound Music Laughing Produce Tears Musician Performances Moved Listeners Torn

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.”

People Inspirational Helping Given Sound Music Talent Produce Musician Instruments Musical Tunes Magnificent Emanate Musical Instruments

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight, excitement, and even controversy which are hard to share with non mathematicians. In our small micro-cosmos we should ever seek the right balance between competition and solidarity, criticism and empathy, exclusion and inclusion.”

“Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails”

Littles Sound Music Musician Notes Fishes Scales Tails Down The Road

Author:Louis MacNeice

“When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say "What lovely music!”

Might Sound Music Car Fine Musician Lovely Engines

Author:Jose Bergamin

“The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross, no "Our Father" to save him. Her curse takes him like a fish in a net and the Mistress of the Water awaits him on the edge of the spring and smiles upon him and tells him to follow her to the depths, from which he will never return.”

Men Long Song Father Sound Water Music Hair Return Musician Spring Crosses Depth Edges Fishes Curse Old Man Village Midnight Mistress Our Father Violin Dripping Long Hair Perdition Mulattoes

Author:Jacques Roumain

“The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.”

May Play Order Language Sound Poor Music Musician Notes Neighbor Tone Strings Mastery Conventional Norm Violin Intervals Rendering Violinist Discrete

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“I have no ear for music. When I attend a concert, I endeavor gamely to follow the sequence and relationship of sounds but cannot keep it up for more than a few minutes. Visual impressions, reflections of hands in lacquered wood, a diligent bald spot over a fiddle, take over, and soon I am bored beyond measure by the motions of the musicians.”

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Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“This is going to sound really corny, but it's the way I feel: Musicians have been around for a really long time. It's a really, really old job. When you look at the way that a small band toured back in the '50s, it's similar to the way that a small band tours now. It's been this long tradition, and when you meet somebody who has been doing this for a really long time, you have to have tremendous respect for them.”

Way Feels Looks Long Has Beens Jobs Sound Band Musician Long Time Tradition Corny Really Long Old Job

Author:Will Sheff

“If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician, which is fine for rock and roll.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Song Sound Rocks Fine Musician Rock And Roll

Author:Creed Bratton

“As a musician, we should always want to strive to be better, we can always make improvements. It's easy to get comfortable and it's easy to find your voice and your sound, but I always wanted to be better.”

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Author:Eric Hernandez

“I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound of heroin.”

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Author:John Waters

“The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he's a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file; I don't know what instrument he was playing them on; I know nothing about his section of the sound of the piece, and then when I'm sitting on trains I do a lot of train travel I turn them into pieces of music. And I love to do that; it's my favorite hobby.”

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