909 private quotes tagged music

“Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.” — Frank Zappa

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“Without music, life would be a mistake.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.” — Peabo Bryson

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“Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the a-s.” — Frank Zappa

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“If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

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“I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.” — David Bowie

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“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.” — Samuel Butler

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“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” — Maya Angelou

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“If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.” — Yo Yo Ma

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“For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.” — Plato

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“You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.” — Rod Stewart

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“Music is always a commentary on society.” — Frank Zappa

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“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

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“People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.” — Taylor Swift

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“Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.” — Jerry Cantrell

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“Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.” — Brian Eno

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“I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.” — Eddie Vedder

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“Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.” — Dave Matthews

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“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.” — William Shakespeare

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“Music fills the infinite between two souls.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.” — Samuel Butler

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“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.” — Carl Jung

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“Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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