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- Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.
- Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.
- Neil Young on Music
- Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.
- Jonathan Cain on Music
- Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
- Martin Luther on Music
- Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls tumbling, gushing.
- Julie Andrews on Music
- Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
- Ludwig Van Beethoven on Music
- Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.
- Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.
- Kristin Hersh on Music
- Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.
- Phil Collins on Music
- Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
- Doug Coupland on Music
- Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.
- Bill Monroe on Music
- Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
- Christina Aguilera on Music
- Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
- Eddie Izzard on Music
- But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.
- Jonathan Kozol on Music
- But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
- Gabriel Marcel on Music
- But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.
- Eric Clapton on Music
- But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.
- E. O. Wilson on Music
- But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
- Charles Ives on Music
- But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars music's got these bars and measures you know.
- But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
- Bryan Ferry on Music
- By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
- Thomas Merton on Music
- Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.
- Bruce Springsteen on Music
- Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
- Alvin Ailey on Music
- Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
- Phillips Brooks on Music
- Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.
- Conrad Hall on Music
- City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.
- Alice Cooper on Music
- Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
- Kin Hubbard on Music
- Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.
- Judith Viorst on Music
- Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.
- Hans Hofmann on Music
- Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.
- Rashida Jones on Music
- Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.
- Neil Young on Music
- Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
- Howard Dietz on Music
- Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
- George Jones on Music
- Country music has always sort of been country music.
- Miranda Lambert on Music
- Country music is about new love and it's about old love.
- Jeff Foxworthy on Music
- Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.
- George Strait on Music
- Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.
- Shania Twain on Music
- Country music is three chords and the truth.
- Harlan Howard on Music
- Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
- George Eliot on Music
- Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.
- Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
- Henry Miller on Music
- Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
- Henry Miller on Music
- Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.
- Giorgio Moroder on Music
- Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
- Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
- John Cusack on Music
- Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
- Camille Paglia on Music
- Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
- Billy Joel on Music
- Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.
- Tupac Shakur on Music
- Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
- Lawrence Welk on Music
- Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.
- Levon Helm on Music
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