909 private quotes tagged music

“Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.” — Henny Youngman

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“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.” — Steve Martin

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“If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.” — Quincy Jones

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“I see music as fluid architecture.” — Joni Mitchell

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“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” — Martin Mull

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“My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.” — Jimi Hendrix

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“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.” — George Jean Nathan

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“Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.” — Marilyn Manson

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“I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.” — Steve Martin

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“I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.” — Marilyn Manson

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“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.” — Ingmar Bergman

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“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.” — Charlie Parker

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“Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.” — Walter Savage Landor

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“I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.” — Salma Hayek

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“Music is hugely important to me.” — Rashida Jones

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“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.” — Walter Pater

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“Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.” — Norah Jones

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“There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.” — Jim Davis

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“A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.” — W. H. Auden

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“To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

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“It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.” — David Byrne

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“More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.” — Billy Joel

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“Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.” — Billy Corgan

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“That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it.” — Kid Rock

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“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.” — Benjamin Britten

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