Music Quotes

MOST DAYS MY LIFE CAN BE SUMMED UP IN MOVIE QUOTESANDHIP HOP AND R&B LYRICS

~ Qwana Reynolds-Frasier

Words are made by history, we build them and they change meaning through time, but the music they play...

~ Claire North

The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.

~ Stewart Stafford

As his hands fell upon the keyboard, it was still possible to believe a beautiful harmony had been formed at random, in spite of him. But a second later the music came surging out, the power of it sweeping away all doubts, voices, sounds, wiping away the fixed grins and exchanged glances, pushing back the walls, dispersing the light of the reception room out into the nocturnal immensity of the sky beyond the windows.He did not feel as if he were playing. He was advancing through a night, breathing in its delicate transparency, made up as it was of an infinite number of facets of ice, of leaves, of wind. He no longer felt any pain. No fear about what would happen. No anguish or remorse. The night through which he was advancing expressed this pain, this fear, and the irremediable shattering of the past, but this had all become music and now only existed through its beauty.

~ Andreï Makine

When stealing from other players, an older musician wisely advised me, choose a different instrument from your own, and people won’t notice the theft.

~ Ted Gioia

Viva fui in silvis sum dura occisa securi dum vixi tacui mortua dulce cano” is inscribed on the fingerboard of a 16th-century viola da gamba made by Kaspar Tieffenbrucker. It translates, “I was alive in the woods; I was cut down by the cruel axe. While I lived I was silent; In death I sweetly sing.

~ Anonymous

Music is either good or it isn’t, it’s not someone’s opinion.

~ Toscanini

There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth — an open-air art, boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.

~ Claude Debussy

Bo put a record on the stereo and the speakers crackled, that moment of anticipation before the needle found its way to the first song.An organ, in rhythm. A chord. “I Heard It Through the Grapevine.”Mum cheered. It was her favorite, the soundtrack to a movie called The Big Chill.

~ Favel Parrett

Music , literature with poetry makes a perfect paradise.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Some guy on the radio is asking me to take it slow, switches to a commercial and I wait for the next song. Feel very much in need of getting lost in speed of electric notes.

~ Gayendra Abeywardane

I am not a fan of books.

~ Kanye West

These babies ain’t just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments.

~ Brenda Sutton Rose

When you scratch these guitars, they bleed.

~ Brenda Sutton Rose

Rainbow on the inside!” He giggles. “Can you imagine if we all took them for Pride? Dozens of us. Hundreds. Thousands? All of us marching, rainbow to the core?

~ Fox Benwell

In a roundabout way, Boba Fett created Pearl Jam.

~ Chuck Klosterman

Inscribed on the fingerboard of a viola da gamba by Kaspar Tieffenbrucker: Viva fui in silvis sum dura occisa securi dum vixi tacui mortua dulce cano. (I was alive in the woods; I was cut down by the cruel axe. While I lived I was silent; In death I sweetly sing.)

~ Anonymous

That night in Cartagena he again requested the songs of his youth, some so old he had to teach them to Iturbide, who was too young to remember them. The audience slipped away as the General bled inside, and he was left alone with Iturbide beside the embers.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

If music can shine, Sophie thought, this music shone... 'It's like eight thousand birds, Charles!'When the music closed, she clapped until the rest of the audience had stopped and until her hands were hot and blotched with red... There was something in the music that felt familiar to Sophie. 'It feels,' she said to Charles, 'like home.

~ Katherine Rundell

Music is the final piece of filmmaking—the essential element that pulls emotion from an audience and puts the goosebumps on the screen.

~ Artie Kane

In starlit nights I saw you,So cruelly you kissed me.Your lips a magic world,Your sky all hung with jewels.The killing moonWill come too

~ Echo And The Bunnymen

Was there ever any question on how much I could take? You kept feeding me your bullshit hoping I would break.

~ Five Finger Death Punch

You can take my heart, you can take my breath when you pry it from my cold, dead chest.

~ Skillet

Katsumi Hosokawa - (he) believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music.

~ Ann Patchett

If somebody tells you a rule, break it. That's the only way to move things forward.

~ Hans Zimmer

I would never understand how hurt and confused and hopeless he must have felt, to decide it wasn't worth trying, and I wasn't mad at him anymore for doing it...

~ Michelle Falkoff

Music is the melody that longs to be heard by someone who can appreciate it.

~ Suzette Vearnon

BE the music, DO the math, HAVE the dream!

~ Suzette Vearnon

Sappho isn't really meant to be read. It's meant to be sung and there were dances for the songs, also. Sappho was a performance artist, and now she exists as a textual project. She was saved by her critics, and by people who wrote of her in letters to each other. As the morning sun lathers the pool through the long windows and stripes the opposite walls in gold, I look at the fragment translations. She's paper, too. A paper poet for a paper boy. People claim to be translating her but they don't, really, they use her to write poems from as they fill in the gaps in the fragments. A duet. She may have meant for these to be solos but they're duets now, though the second singer blends in with the first. The first singer in this case is offstage, like in the old days of stars who couldn't sing, a real singer hidden behind a curtain, which is the velvet drape of history.

~ Alexander Chee

Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars.

~ Fiston Mwanza Mujila

Music gives you a certain high that any drug in the world cannot.

~ Vineet Goel

It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.

~ Patti Smith

There’s secrets hiding inside this six-string just waitin’ for somebody to find ‘em and turn ‘em into music.

~ Brenda Sutton Rose

I do not believe in decent women who do not know how to play the piano.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

That was why Peg loved the Messiah best of all. Because it showed people they were not alone. No matter about their differences, the music lifted them up and lowered them down, only to raise them even higher. It worked like a spell.

~ Rachel Joyce

Nobody loves me but mama, and she may be jivin too.

~ B.b. King

Music makes an otherwise ordinary activity quite enriching.

~ Hrishikesh Agnihotri

If only I could freeze this moment, this feeling, because right now, nothing else mattered. I was f***ing flying.

~ Tara Kelly

For once I want the beat louder than my mind.

~ Irfa Rahat

But everyone has a voice, and everyone sings. Oh, we all do it differently. Some of us sing quietly, alone, only in the dead of night or in the shower. Some of us sing a cappella, and some stand on a stage beside a band and let the whole world share their song. Some of us, some of us don’t sing at all, like that. We sing with other instruments: There’s song in stores, and in art, and in getting up before the dawn and putting food onto the table. There are angry songs and sad songs and songs that make you want to dance. But everybody has a song to sing, their own personal story leaked into the world. And mine is one of love.

~ Fox Benwell