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Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.
Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.
I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
But I also think that once you've found stuff that works, stop reading forums, stop reading reviews and just get out there and play.
Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.
If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician.
The old-timers schooled me good. They brainwashed me to respect music, whether we were playing rockabilly or blues or rock and roll.
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.
Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite.
There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)
I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.
I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless.
[On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias.
I'd love to see Christ come back to crush the spirit of hate and make men put down their guns. I'd also like just one more hit single.
Riegger's Dichotomy sounded as though a pack of rats were being slowly tortured to death while, from time to time, a dying cow moaned.
My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.
We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
When Lonnie Mack came out with the guitar instrumental "Memphis" I thought, Oh God, finally somebody we guitar players can relate to !
Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.
The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.
Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.
The singing of hymns and the rendition of selections from the great sacred oratorios by ward choirs all enhance the spirit of worship.
I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.
Worry is thinking that has turned toxic. It is jarring music that goes round and round and never comes to either climax or conclusion.
On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.
She's not a saint, and she's not what you think She's an actress, whoa She's better known for the things that she does on the mattress
Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.
For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.
Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play.
Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good.
Soon as I could play one guitar chord and laid my ear upon that wood, I was gone. My soul was sold. Music was everything from then on.
Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.
The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb
A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common.