909 private quotes tagged music

“No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.” — W. H. Auden

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“Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.” — Jacques Barzun

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“I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.” — B. B. King

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“Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.” — Isaac Stern

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“My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.” — Paulina Rubio

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“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.” — Gustav Mahler

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“There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.” — Mickey Hart

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“Music should be your escape.” — Missy Elliot

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“My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.” — Ray Charles

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“The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.” — Duke Ellington

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“I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.” — Elvis Presley

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“Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.” — Edgar Winter

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“Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.” — Howard Dietz

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“Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.” — Billy Sheehan

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“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.” — Stanley Kubrick

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“Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.” — John Ruskin

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“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” — Pablo Casals

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“Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.” — Michael Stipe

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“Music is the strongest form of magic.” — Marilyn Manson

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“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” — Jean Paul

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“Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.” — Johnny Cash

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“There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.” — Aimee Mann

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“I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.” — Herb Alpert

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“Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.” — Brian Eno

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“Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.” — Keith Richards

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