909 private quotes tagged music

“Music for me, it demands full concentration.” — Paulo Coelho

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“I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.” — Brian Eno

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“I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.” — David Bowie

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“Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.” — Bryan Ferry

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“Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.” — Bryan Ferry

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“You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?” — Bryan Ferry

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“The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.” — Brian Eno

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“We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.” — Brian Eno

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“At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.” — Brian Eno

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“When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.” — Denis Diderot

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“There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.” — John Mayer

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“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.” — Martin Luther

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“Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts.” — Rebecca West

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“It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.” — Samuel Butler

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“Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

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“If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.” — Richard Branson

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“Music is the shorthand of emotion.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“In music the passions enjoy themselves.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“For me, music and life are all about style.” — Miles Davis

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“Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.” — Jimmy Carter

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“Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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