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Wouldn't it be nice if there weree a planet where the sound of rain falling is like Bach?" he says."Yes, Planet Bach," I respond.He smiles -"Yes", he murmurs- picturing it, hearing it.
— Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
There’s secrets hiding inside this six-string just waitin’ for somebody to find ‘em and turn ‘em into music.
— Brenda Sutton Rose
I do not believe in decent women who do not know how to play the piano.
— Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
That was why Peg loved the Messiah best of all. Because it showed people they were not alone. No matter about their differences, the music lifted them up and lowered them down, only to raise them even higher. It worked like a spell.
— Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop
Good music was meant to be loud!
— Ahmed Mostafa
Nobody loves me but mama, and she may be jivin too.
— B.B. King
Music makes an otherwise ordinary activity quite enriching.
— Hrishikesh Agnihotri
If only I could	freeze this moment, this feeling, because right	now, nothing else mattered. I was f***ing flying.
— Tara Kelly, Encore
For once I want the beat louder than my mind.
— Irfa Rahat
But everyone has a voice, and everyone sings. Oh, we all do it differently. Some of us sing quietly, alone, only in the dead of night or in the shower. Some of us sing a cappella, and some stand on a stage beside a band and let the whole world share their song. Some of us, some of us don’t sing at all, like that. We sing with other instruments: There’s song in stores, and in art, and in getting up before the dawn and putting food onto the table. There are angry songs and sad songs and songs that make you want to dance. But everybody has a song to sing, their own personal story leaked into the world. And mine is one of love.
— Fox Benwell, Kaleidoscope Song
Music does that; I would often dawdle home to make it last, all calm and wide awake and bouncing-still, and music would be everywhere, in everything.
— Fox Benwell, Kaleidoscope Song
Music is obsession.Like jumping in a river and getting swept away, too fast, too hard, hoping that you find an eddy somewhere that will let you gasp for air.
— Fox Benwell, Kaleidoscope Song
Music is the real life. Everything else is just mortar.
— Fox Benwell, Kaleidoscope Song
There’s always music. Everywhere.
— Fox Benwell, Kaleidoscope Song
Have you ever thought about rhythm? The way it changes from inside a song? The way it picks up pace or drops and takes you somewhere new?Rhythm is the key, but sometimes rhythm shakes and shimmies, shifts and emerges all mermaid-new.
— Fox Benwell, Kaleidoscope Song
Sometimes, when you know what’s coming on your playlist, you anticipate. You see how one song leads into the next. But when it’s new you can’t see what’s in front of you at all. That moment when the next song plays, all you have is what you hear. Moments to make up your mind. Sit it out, or dance.I like this beat. And I’m ready to move.And this one has a beat that you can dance to.
— Fox Benwell, Kaleidoscope Song
Sometimes, sometimes you find a riff that fits so comfortably, you wish it would go on forever.
— Fox Benwell, Kaleidoscope Song
Music heals miserable heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Good music will make you forget all your misery.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Music heals all forms of misery
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Like music, said Peg. Even when it was over, it kept living inside you.
— Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop
We sing because we can't speak anymore. Dance is an extension of that - we dance because we can't speak anymore.
— Kristin Chenoweth
As a minister of the Lord in whatever way the Lord decides to use you and with the gifts he gives you for the work, there is the tendency to start idolizing the work itself or the gifts that you forget it is the father who gave it to you. Who picked you up and dusted you from nothing and adorned you. You forget and make the work a god before him. Exodus 20:3 "You shall have no other gods before me".-----This can be very subtle especially for social media ministry. You begin to love your social image over the word of God. You begin to dampen and tweak the word of God to appeal to a wider audience. You're suddenly no longer about the raw truth of the gospel. As the followers and likes increase you begin to get more and more addicted to the fruit of the works and the response to YOUR messages and posts. If a post doesn't do too well and get many likes and comments you are not happy. It hurts you deeply. That is how you know It has become about you.------If this is you and this message has touched your heart, if this post is like a mirror to your face, go back to God and ask for forgiveness. Ask God to forgive you for elevating yourself and your work as a god before him and return back to when it was just about loving him and preaching the good news. You probably may have noticed you lost the fire of inspiration you used to have at the beginning. This is why.
— Daniel Friday Danzor
lips, red, ruby, like the blood, like the voice.
— Gwen Calvo, Cocaine Masks: Cocaine Masks
I’m not who you think I am. I’m an actor. Just like all of you. I’m improvising, shooting from the hip. It’s all a lie. I’m a lie. You’re a lie. The lights—they don’t lie. But when they shine, they only tell half the story.
— Chris DiCroce, Burning Man
Everything seemed less frightening with music, even more so with music I knew by heart. It forced a familiar perspective on the scary unknown that was about to happen.
— Gaia B. Amman, Sex-O-S: The Tragicomic Adventure of an Italian Surviving the First Time
She said, 'People don't know what they like until they hear it. And that is the magic of music. Every song is a possibility, and all it takes is the right chord or the right beat and the heart is hooked.
— Leslie Hauser, Chasing Eveline
The baker kneads; the weaver knits;The smithy plies the sun-bright steel;The potter turns; the farmer plants;The miller grinds his dusty meal.While I my quill in trembling handPen odes to please the fickle throng;The greatest craftsman of them all, Save only she who sings my song.
— D. Alexander Neill
My music genres, New Age Music, Electronic synth – pop, Disco, Electro house, Electronica- ambient, Electro pop. Hi-NRG, Electronic; ambient; folk; world; classical; easy listening, Latin salsa , Latin cha cha, latin bolero , latin – pop , Rock , Metal , ambient – rock , Arab dance , Nubian music ,jazz . World music , Trance , House music , Techno , Industrial music, Electronic dance music, Ambient house; chill-out …. Mood Music and Sami Abouzid
— Sami Abouzid
A great Musician Falls a Sleep PLAYING HIS Favorite Solo on and on endlessly.
— Sami Abouzid
I hope my forthcoming Girlfriend will be a musician Too, cause I got sick of being with those who don’t understand what I’m doing and don’t like soundtracks and wanna listen to KTU 24\7 	and don’t like to hang out in an amazing studio …..Amen
— Sami Abouzid
I’m listening constantly for 3 days to my Soundtrack …. Leave Me Alone ….Wow, what a musical Gem, a Gorgeous musical perfection …this is what great music is all about ….Awesomeness
— Sami Abouzid
I am you and what I see is me
— Pink Floyd
Plenty of masterpieces are just one cliché after another, Mozart for example, but that's quite natural, because if you think about it, two clichés that have met one another can beget the most original and profound effect.
— Thomas Ades, Thomas Adès: Full of Noises: Conversations with Tom Service
Plenty of masterpieces are just one cliché after another, Mozart for example, but that's quite natural, because if you think about it, two clichés that have never met each other before can beget the most original and profound effect.
— Thomas Ades, Thomas Adès: Full of Noises: Conversations with Tom Service
There is no sin in the realm of taste.
— Steve Almond, Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us
When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
And Goneville? It is a name that kept coming up as I was writing this book, and each time its meaning shifted a little. It's almost Gonville, the suburb of Whanganui where Johnny Devlin, New Zealand's first rock 'n'roll star, grew up, so arguably the birthplace of New Zealand rock 'n'roll. But it is also an imaginary place that might be every obscure New Zealand town that every obscure New Zealand band ever played.
— Nick Bollinger, Goneville
Music awakes the spirit of the mind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
No daydreaming. No music, film, art, creative thinking or business.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
...and for a great deal it seemed good to him, for in the music there were no flaws.
— J R R Tolkien
Jazz was about the spaces between notes. It was about what happened when you listened to the thing inside you. The gaps and the cracks. Because that was where life really happened, when you were brave enough to free-fall.
— Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop
Do you ever wonder why music brings a soul to surface? What makes beauty work as well as pain?
— Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet
To play a wrong note is insignificant
—  to play without passion is inexcusable!
If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?
— Kendrick Lamar
After reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write
— Matty Healy
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.
— Keith Richards, Life
Music inspires! Music influences! Music rebukes! Music awakens the slumbering! Music describes, and tells stories of intrigue! Music can redirect the true direction of lives. The power of music must never be underestimated. If you don’t know what music can do to you, don’t listen to music
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Toxic In The Mind: daily use of the mind that kills you slowly
When a friend introduced me to a Bach chaconne, he started by describing it by saying that it has 256 measures (256=2^8) divided into 4 sections of 64 measures (64=2^6), and I liked it even before I heard a single note.
— James Stein
I create my music for fun not because I have to, that is why it sounds magical and unique
— Sami Abouzid
Rock and Roll can never die.
— Neil Young
Your voice falls on my ears like a rhapsody on a lonely shore.Perhaps like a molten metal which I gulp down thirstily and it soothes my throat with the warmth and freezes when it reaches my heart.
— Samrta Marks
Music brings relief! Hymns change mood! Songs empower the downhearted. Sing songs always! When all things seem down, sing a good and an inspiring song! When you seem to be wasting your energy on toxic thoughts, invoke your spirit with an amazing song! Songs have power! Empower your life with good songs!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There's organized confusion on African roads while driving in the cities. If you want to mess up Afican Cities very easy, just fly in 100 Americans put them on the road and tell them to drive.
— Jidenna
We Can Win If We Want to, 160 Single Released ….190 more to go
— Sami Abouzid
They were making a riotous noise, but it was much more like music - rather advanced music which you don't quite take in at the first hearing - than birds' songs ever are in our world.
— C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
Every day is a dance deed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Well, what do you think? Avanti?""Avanti," cries everyone, and, after a few quick re-tunings of our instruments, and re-initialisings of our hearts, we enter the slow theme-and-variations movement.How good it is to pay this quintet, to play it, not to work at it - to play for our own joy, with no need to convey anything to anyone outside our ring of recreation, with no expectation of a future stage, of the too-immediate sop of applause. The quintet exists without us yet cannot exist without us. It sings to us, we sing into it, and somehow, through these little black and white insects clustering along five thin lines, the man who deafly transfigured what he so many years earlier had hearingly composed speaks into us across land and water and ten generations, and fills us here with sadness, here with amazed delight.
— Vikram Seth, An Equal Music
The music video will die when we all go blind, and music will never die, because even when you can't hear it, you can feel it.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner
I miss being in Barbados in December,That is a time I always remember,The smell of varnish on the wooden floors,And the smell of paint on the wooden doorsThe crowds in de Supermarket,Buying up the rum,And the music blastingPuh rup a pum pum
— Charmaine J Forde
Everybody says you have to decide between the head and the heart, but that’s just so much bullshit. Your heart and your head don’t know a damn thing between them when it comes to other people. Your head can know facts about them, sure—like a criminal record or a Purple Heart—but that’s about it. And your heart only knows how it feels and what it wants, not what the other person is feeling . . .
— Dani Harper, Storm Warned
Kind of like CSI investigating a social error—Here’s the corpse of the situation, what do you think killed it?—with the hope of preventing further fatalities. Often as not, it boiled down to missed cues.
— Dani Harper, Storm Warned
Sometimes the universe conspires to give you what you really want, Liam. And it’s your job to let it.
— Dani Harper, Storm Warned
I like lots of bands, and I LOVE fewer, but the list is still lengthy. I rarely pick a "favorite" because I think that's for laypeople who don't understand the infinite possibilities of music.
— Kara Lee Corthron, The Truth of Right Now
One Day you might desperately need to hear power chords and indulgent drum solos. Another might be a day for orchestral sounds. Picking one band above all else is just wrong. But, then again, it's not like what I say has to be etched in blood. Changing my mind later doesn't necessarily mean I'm a total waffler.
— Kara Lee Corthron, The Truth of Right Now
The Pythagoreans... were fascinated by certain specific ratios, ...The Greeks knew these as the 'golden' proportion and the 'perfect' proportion respectively. They may well have been learned from the Babylonians by Pythagoras himself after having been taken prisoner in Egypt. Ratios lay at the heart of the Pythagorean theory of music.
— Graham Flegg, Numbers: Their History and Meaning
my musicplay downsorrow
— Cathleen Margaret, Berthenia Belle
I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger.
— Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
Sometimes the magic of life is beyond thought. It's the sparkle of intuition, of bringing your own personal energy into your music.
— Jennifer Ryan, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
Music speaks louder than words.
— Arima Kousei
Nothing softens the heart like a song.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There are times in life to play it safe. I'm sure you can think of several. Music is not one of them.
— Deke Sharon, A Cappella
why to get stress or get bore ..When you have flipdark.com to get ultimate entertainment :)
— Donald
I totally adore … The Dark Side of Emilee (Trapped).. One of the most gorgeous Piano chords I have ever created, eternal beauty in CDBABY store 6- 16 -2017.
— Sami Abouzid
There is a music in my heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is a sorrow, without a song.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference.
— Deke Sharon, Heart of Vocal Harmony, the: Emotional Expression in Group Singing
The band in the ballroom announced the cover of a special request, and after a pause, the woman's voice sang out the breathy first line of Etta James's "At Last." Chairs barked as guests rose to greet the champion of all wedding songs, the one that always brought indifferent or fighting or estranged couples to the dance floor for momentary reconciliation.
— Mira Jacob, The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing
The viola and the clarinet made for an interesting pairing: we had to imagine the accompaniment of other instruments, ideally a violin and a cello.
— Nicholas Christopher, The True Adventures of Nicolo Zen
The rhythm of movement is the dance of music.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Her hair is troublesome and curly ... It falls in long, black strands, but each strand has a gentle, complicated undulation travelling through it, like a mild electric shock or a thrill, hat gives it a life of its own; it is visually analogous to a tremolo on a musical note.
— Amit Chaudhuri, Afternoon Raag
Can’t Stop Loving You (Italo – Dance Mix) ,,, was the 2nd soundtrack I ever created and still magical to my heart ….I love it more than words can ever say ,,,endless beauty
— Sami Abouzid
The dull pulse-like beat started at eleven o’clock at night. It was a new kind of music called ‘rap’. It baffled Ananda even more than disco. He had puzzled and puzzled over why people would want to listen and even move their bodies to an angry, insistent onrush of words – words that rhymed, apparently, but had no echo or afterlife. It was as if they were an extension of the body: never had words sounded so alarmingly physical, and pure physicality lacks empathy, it’s machine-like.
— Amit Chaudhuri, Odysseus Abroad
It was long past midnight. Laura's music played on. It was composed in the language of stars, tinkling in a crystal pool suspended from constellations. She used chimes now and then, the chimes that characterized every patio in Arizona, the piano, the trees combed by wind. A prelude to a storm. It was like discovering the secret room in a dream of your house that holds all the magic. It was music I wished I lived inside. Around us, cactus, hills filled with jumping cholla, the heat of August like another animal heaving over us.
— Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
The rhythm of the dance lies in the music.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It’s the lifestyle that’s being packaged and sold rather than the actual meaning.
— Rain Cooper
Sound systems are what turn cars into escape vehicles, even if you've got nowhere to go.
— Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone
I got to tell you, that if it weren't for that harmonica music, i might of just packed up and gone home, but it made me feel so good, I can hardly describe it. Sort of like my whole body is the harmonica and the music give me goosebumps when I play it.
— Winston Groom, Forrest Gump
Music makes everything more romantic, doesn't it? One second you're walking your dog in the suburbs, and then you put on Adele, and it's like you're in a movie and you've just had your heart brutally broken.
— Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean
In these few minutes, I was Beethoven's captive and I couldn't have been a more willing participant.
— Stormy Smith, Who She Was
Never had there been a time when sound, color, and feeling hadn’t been intertwined, when a dirty, rolling bass line hadn’t induced violets that suffused him with thick contentment, when the shades of certain chords sliding up to one another hadn’t produced dusty pastels that made him feel like he was cupping a tiny, golden bird. It wasn’t just music but also rumbling trains and rainstorms, occasional voices, a collective din. Colors and textures appeared in front of him, bouncing in time to the rhythm, or he’d get a flash of color in his mind, an automatic sensation of a tone, innate as breathing.
— Lisa Ko, The Leavers
The boy will grow older, and over time there will be other songs – not many – ten or maybe twenty in a lifespan, that stand apart from the rest of the music he will discover. He will realise as he grows older still, and crosses the Canadian border and drives down into Seattle, that not only are these songs holy or sacred, they are hiding songs – what the Aztec Indians call carrion songs – that deal exclusively in darkness, obfuscation, concealment and secrecy. He will realize that, for him, the purpose of these songs has been to shut off the sun, to draw a long shadow down and protect him from the corrosive glare of the world.
— Nick Cave, The Sick Bag Song
As sunlight is for flowers, and sustenance for the mortal shell, music is for the human soul.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Life is music to which you choreograph your own dance.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Composing music changes nations, listening to music changes you.
— Alin Sav
And in the depths of music, I didn’t find the answer,And again there was silence, and again the ghost of summer.
— Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
He sang one whole verse directly to her, then, in fidelity to the song, he sent his vision inward to where his purest music was always found, and he looked at no one at all as he sang to Eanna herself, a hymn to names and the naming of things.
— Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana
I Taught myself how to Write lyrics ,compose ,sing ,arrange music ,mix and mastering my music and producing it and selling it worldwide , Promoting it Too and making my music videos as well . All because they wanted to abuse me when I first started.
— Sami Abouzid
I’m So Delighted to start working on my forthcoming soundtrack … Princess Of The Night … another amazing Italo- Disco hit dedicated to my eternal princess of Wayne Lisa ....
— Sami Abouzid
Music is where I feel loved. Past, present. Music is where I give love. Why do I continue to enter rooms of strangers who are suffering, dying, cursing, diminished, unwashed? Because of love. I don't see hollow faces, blank stares, decaying bodies. I see the faces of God in these human beings. Precious people with stories, contributions, presence. Music pays tribute to their lives, often coaxes out their life stories, gives them worth, but most of all loves them when they are lost, weak, vulnerable.
— Robin Russell Gaiser, Musical Morphine: Transforming Pain One Note at a Time
Human beings were made for music. Its thrill and rapture are picked up almost immediately by little children
— Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence
All is full of love
— Bjork
The boy will grow older, and over time there will be other songs – not many – ten or maybe twenty in a lifespan, that stand apar from the rest of the music he will discover. He will realise as he grows older still, and crosses the Canadian border and drives down into Seattle, that not only are these songs holy or sacred, they are hiding songs – what the Aztec Indians call carrion songs – that deal exclusively in darkness, obfuscation, concealment and secrecy. He will realize that, for him, the purpose of these songs has been to shut off the sun, to draw a long shadow down and protect him from the corrosive glare of the world.
— Nick Cave, The Sick Bag Song
From inside the tavern came the sounds of a fiddle being tuned, various plucks and tentative bowings, then a slow and groping attempt at Aura Lee, interrupted every few notes by unplanned squeaks and howls. Nevertheless the beautiful and familiar tune was impervious to poor performance, and Inman thought how painfully young it sounded, as if the pattern of its notes allowed no room to imagine a future clouded and tangled and diminished.
— Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
ReverbNation , I Wanna Truly thank ReverbNation for given all Indie Musicians the chance to shine , me and 3 million musicians are allowed to upload unlimited songs and videos and sharing our art and creativity with this world , no one else is doing the same thing to us ….thank you ReverbNation
— Sami Abouzid
He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.
— Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
My soul, I’ve found, has puppet strings to make me droop or give me wings.And music is the puppeteerthat turns my ear to hear.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Make me strong. Not to be superior to others. To fight my greatest ennemy. Myself.
— Kalki, Varanasi
Whoever said God is a mathematician or an architect was not paying attention. The universe behaves more like a song than an equation. God is the great composer. A song contain mathematical relationships but an equation does not contain a song.
— R.A.Delmonico
Music fountains from purity, travels through serenity and dissolves with tranquility.
— Vinod Varghese Antony
Years later, as a professor, Martin would try to find the words to articulate the power of togetherness in a world where togetherness had been corrupted -- and to explore the effect of the music, the surprising lengths the people had gone to to hear it and to play it, as evidence that music, and art in general, are basic requirements of the human soul. Not a luxury but a compulsion. He will think of it every time he goes to a museum or a concert or a play with a long line of people waiting to get inside.
— Jessica Shattuck, The Women in the Castle
Bottom line: you never ever saw him looking wrong. Knowing this, I felt a cold shiver down my spine when I read in the Minneapolis StarTribune that when his body was found in the elevator at Paisley Park, "Prince was wearing a black shirt and pants - both were on backward - and his socks were inside out."This made no sense to me. The sheer irony of it broke my heart all over again.
— Mayte Garcia, The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince
We love music deeply, but why? Put simply: music makes lives, shapes lives, expresses all shades and stages of life - and even saves lives.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Written in pain, written in aweBy a puzzled man who questionedWhat we were here for
— David Bowie
I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Neighbor to neighbor. It is a mentality that has been fostered over centuries, since the earliest settlers realized the only way to survive in this desolate but beautiful outpost was to work together. Much of their music captures this spirit.
— Jim DeFede, The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
Beneath the rubato of the day abided a stern pulse beating on, ineluctable, unforgiving, whereby whatever was evaded or put off now had to be made up for later, and at a higher level of intensity.
— Thomas Pynchon
On Atheism – If people continue to think of atheism as a kind of religion, then I demand all the perks that real religions get. I want to build big empty buildings where like-minded people can gather once a week to debate a non-existent deity. I want tax-exempt status. I want real food, not cheap wine and crackers. I want a rocking band. I want altar men! Not altar boys—altar MEN—and I want them to look like the chain-clad guy who hands an envelope to RuPaul at the beginning of “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar”.
— Marsha Hinds
What is Lisztomania, and how was it cured? Who was Drog, and what was his prophecy regarding Electronic Music? What preparation do you need before throwing an artistic tantrum? Which orchestral musicians are also qualified to run a hospital?The plausible answers to these and many other tantalising questions can be found in this wickedly funny – and occasionally just wicked – book.
— Patrick Brislan, Heresies of Music: An A-Z Diagnostic Guide
… A wonderful collection of truths, and almost all are inconvenient’.‘… Something here to offend everyone’.‘… Everything from burlesque to parody, and with a sprinkling of serious commentary to confound the believers’.In the interest of balance however, here are some quotes from reviews which might have been written by others less inclined to view Heresies favorably. Again, I have undertaken this task on their behalf:“…a random assortment of schoolboy jokes. Possibly enjoyable for those who like juvenile humour – assuming they find it funny at all.”“The attempts at serious commentary are laughable, while the so-called heretical viewpoints are the unfunny fancies of a feeble mind.”“… Betrays an underlying resentment – disguised as ‘heresy’ – of those of eminence and achievement in music’s historical record.”Hmm. Can they all be right?
— Patrick Brislan, Heresies of Music: An A-Z Diagnostic Guide
Musicians are some of the most driven, courageous people on the face of the earth. They deal with more day-to-day rejection in one year than most people do in a lifetime. Every day, they face the financial challenge of living a freelance lifestyle, the disrespect of people who think they should get real jobs, and their own fear that they’ll never work again. Every day, they have to ignore the possibility that the vision they have dedicated their lives to is a pipe dream. With every note, they stretch themselves, emotionally and physically, risking criticism and judgement. With every passing year, many of them watch as the other people their age achieve the predictable milestones of normal life – the car, the family, the house, the nest egg. Why? Because musicians are willing to give their entire lives to a moment – to that melody, that lyric, that chord, or that interpretation that will stir the audience’s soul. Musicians are beings who have tasted life’s nectar in that crystal moment when they poured out their creative spirit and touched another’s heart. In that instant, they were as close to magic, God, and perfection as anyone could ever be. And in their own hearts, they know that to dedicate oneself to that moment is worth a thousand lifetimes.
— David Ackert
Was he a beast if music could move him so?
— Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
It was a real party of swells.
— Elvis Costello, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
Born on March 20, 1971, she celebrated her 100th birthday this past March. During the war she toured the battle zones, where British forces were fighting by giving concerts for the troops. The songs most remembered from that era are We'll Meet Again, The White Cliffs of Dover, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square and There'll Always Be an England. During the Second World War she earned the title of “the Allied Forces Sweetheart.” And in 1945 she was awarded the British War Medal and the Burma Star for her untiring devotion to the Crown and the men in uniform. As a songwriter and actress, her recordings and performances were enormously popular. This popularity remained solid after the war with recording of Auf Wiedersehen Sweetheart, My Son, My Son and I Love This Land, which was released to mark the end of the Falklands War. In 2009, at age 92, she became the oldest living artist to top the UK Albums Chart, with We'll Meet Again, The Very Best of Vera Lynn. Commemorating her 100th birthday she released the album Vera Lynn 100, in 2017, which number 3 on the charts, making her the oldest recording artist in the world and the first centenarian performer to have an album in the charts.Vera Lynn devoted much time working with wounded ex-servicemen, disabled children, and breast cancer. She is held in great affection by veterans of the Second World War and in 2000 was named the Briton who best exemplified the spirit of the 20th century.
— Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise"
To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One... Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach.
— Thomas Bernhard, The Loser
Sometimes silence become the most excruciating sound; sometimes the mind becomes a musical symphony of clouded thoughts, questions and clarifications but the vocals fail to present the sound of conversation.
— Sumrit Shahi, Just Friends
I'm sitting here doing nothing but ageing while my guitar gently weeps
— George Harrison, The Beatles Anthology
Not afraid to die , but not the fear of death
— Rotik the marathi rapper
Trends of the times be damned.
— Robert Glasper
The unforgiven (Crying in the night for love) .....Coming Soon ...I'm in love with amazing soundtrack.... I wanted to create more mixes of The unforgiven and now the time has come to just do that ......I love what I'm doing in music ....an eternal dream coming true
— Sami Abouzid
Hippies survived Nixon, but punk caved in to Ronald Reagan, know what I'm saying? Punk actually couldn't take a good challenge.
— Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
He quickly observed, that good sentences and excellent representations of the follies of mankind met with little regard or applause, whilst sounds, without sense, threw every body into raptures:——but 'twas the fashion of the day to be musically mad, and those who were absurd enough to prefer a rational entertainment to a flimsy opera, were poor insipid beings, without taste or enthusiasm.
— Eliza Parsons, Errors of Education
Music is life and life is Music
— Ballyn Pieterjan
Stick to the key of C, dude. No sharps or flats. More forgiving.
— Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days
Music is a safe kind of high
— Unsure
With a heart filled with endless love for those who scorned me, I wandered far away. For many and many a year I sang songs. Whenever I tried to sing of love, it turned to pain. And again, when I tried to sing of pain, it turned to love.
— Franz Schubert
Girlfriend At Sunset (Leaving Me Without Goodbye)....is ready for the final mix and it's one of the best mixes ever .....I had great times creating it and Girlfriend At Sunset has the potential for many mixes to come .......I'm in love with amazing work of art ..........
— Sami Abouzid
Music is always the first thing I notice when I go someplace new.
— J.C. Lillis, A&B
Writing catchy pop songs is a super-minor superpower, but it's mine.
— J.C. Lillis, A&B
Girl listens to radio. Girl finds music. Girl has whole other world.Girl slips on headphones. World gone.
— Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
She ran straight into Leo’s open arms, unable to stop the tears from falling, feeling at last defended, like a single musical note that had finally found the symphony to which it belonged.
— Natasha Lester, Her Mother's Secret
There are mornings when, from the first ray of light seized upon by the eye, and the first simple sounds that get inside the head, the heart is convinced that it is existing in rhythm to a kind of unheard music, familiar but forgotten because long ago it was interrupted and only now has suddenly resumed playing. The silent melodies pass through the fabric of the consciousness like the wind through the meshes of a net, without moving it, but at the same time unmistakably there, all around it. For one who has never lived such a morning, its advent can be a paralyzing experience.
— Paul Bowles, The Spider's House
You wake up and feel a sudden sadness that you never felt before. You try to find a reason behind it but you cannot. You think coffee might change the feeling. So you make yourself a hot cup of coffee and put on the music player. Do you feel better now?
— Avijeet Das
I would spend my life on the road logging hundreds of thousands of miles and my story was always the same. . . man comes to town, detonates; man leaves town and drives off into the evening; fade to black. Just the way I like it.
— Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run
I’m so proud of my soundtrack ….. Unfaithful a real amazing work of art …..I wanted to create it a long time ago ….but now it sounds magical, a musical Gem
— Sami Abouzid
Kind of gay? I wanted to say. Do you have any notion how many homosexuals sweated their ass off on the dance floor to make this soaring bit of derivative trash possible? How many died of AIDS, OD'd, or went broke on the way to that girl from Texas cutting a deal...
— Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone
Good lyrics always drown me with them till they cease to flow.
— Balroop Singh
Spinning, flying, dreaming, falling, Running when I hear you calling, Even when you’re far from reach, I still can’t catch my breath.”Elliot paused and let Chris’s guitar echo for a long moment before he practically whispered the final line into his microphone.“The one you took from me….
— M.J. O'Shea
As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent.
— Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run
As we'd slogged away for weeks on the Convention Hall stage in isolation, trying to pump life into our much-vaunted songbook, there'd been only one thing missing: you.
— Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run
I'm fairly tired of hipsters. They have terrible taste in music. These kids come in and say, 'You don't have anything that was released this year?' That makes me crazy. We don't need anything from this year! (Bob Diener, owner of Record Swap in Champaign, IL)
— Eric Spitznagel, Old Records Never Die: One Man's Quest for His Vinyl and His Past
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Every song may be someone's personal implement of torture.
— Francine Prose, Goldengrove
Sad songs are not my strong suit. All the songs that have saved my life make you feel like driving with the top down or dancing in your room with your best friend.
— J.C. Lillis, A&B
Once you have heard the Indian Bamboo flute then everything else is just ordinary!
— Osho, Books I Have Loved
Music escapes from words: that is its purpose, and its majesty.
— Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time
Lend your ear then to this tutti of steeples; diffuse over the whole the buzz of half a million of human beings, the eternal murmur of the river, the infinite piping of the wind, the grave and distant quartet of the four forests placed like immense organs on the four hills of the horizon; soften down, as with a demi-tint, all that is too shrill and too harsh in the central mass of sound, and say if you know any thing in the world more rich, more gladdening, more dazzling than that tumult of bells; than that furnace of music; than those ten thousand brazen tones breathed all at once from flutes of stone three hundred feet high; than that city which is but one orchestra; than that symphony rushing and roaring like a tempest.
— Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Rock It, Read It.
— Larry Acquaviva, Nobody Cares Who You Are
Find It, Live It, Love It.
— Larry Acquaviva, Nobody Cares Who You Are
How strange it would now — like speaking without a voice. Is that what music is then, a ventriloquist with his doll ?
— John Marsden, So Much to Tell You
—the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again.
— Alexandra Bracken, Passenger
I don't think I knew what depression was. I knew I felt funny sometimes and I was different. I think it's a musician thing. That's why I write music. You know, I'm not like some messed up person. There is a lot of people that suffer depression that don't have an outlet, you know what I mean? That can't pick up a guitar for an hour and feel better.
— Amy Winehouse
A harsh crack followed the rumble of thunder, a lightning strike. With that, the other musicians began to play, bringing in the tinkling sounds of light rain, the deeper thrum of thicker droplets. The others played the crashing waves, the lapping of water against a nonexistent shore. All around us were the sounds of water, dripping from faucets, gushing from waterfalls.
— Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark
My mind is curiously alert; it's as though my skull had a thousand mirrors inside it. My nerves are taut, vibrant! the notes are like glass balls dancing on a million jets of water. I've never been to a concert before on such an empty belly. Nothing escapes me, not even the tiniest pin falling. It's as though I had no clothes on and every pore of my body was a window and all the windows open and the light flooding my gizzards. I can feel the light curving under the vault of my ribs and my ribs hang there over a hollow nave trembling with reverberations. How long this lasts I have no idea; I have lost all sense of time and place. After what seems like an eternity there follows an interval of semiconsciousness balanced by such a calm that I feel a great lake inside me, a lake of iridescent sheen, cool as jelly; and over this lake, rising in great swooping spirals, there emerge flocks of birds of passage with long slim legs and brilliant plumage. Flock after flock surge up from the cool, still surface of the lake and, passing under my clavicles, lose themselves in the white sea of space. And then slowly, very slowly, as if an old woman in a white cap were going the rounds of my body, slowly the windows are closed and my organs drop back into place.
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
She had forgotten about this, the narcotic of the crowd. This is why you came to hear music. To stop being yourself, to let that thing that you supposedly were go, and just be part of a mob, synchronized by the heavy beat, mesmerized by a singer with big smeary red lips, her spooky chant.
— Janet Fitch, Paint it Black
Silence is the best music when you are in need of silence and music is the best silence when you are in need of music!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The truth is that there comes a time When we can mourn no more over music That is so much motionless sound
— Wallace Stevens
Inspiration surrounds us, the creation is our responsibility as artists.-Lyn Crain
— Lyn Crain
Don't mind us, we're just spilling our guts. If this is love, I don'twant to be hanging by the neck in front of an audience of Death.
— Get Scared - Sarcasm
Now I don’t know how many people like to drive a Beetle at that kind of speed (on purpose) but I know I’d rather go down Brickmaker’s Kloof on a bicycle with no brakes! Driving any car at that speed in anything other than an expensive German luxury car on a long, straight autobahn is enough of a risk (let alone the risk of hitting anything) – but if you try that with a Beetle and add a light crosswind, factor in some rubber peeling off your tire, and you’ll more than likely find yourself dancing alone in a dark corner without any music.
— Christina Engela, Bugspray
Coachella is a festival fashion show where people dress up like hippies and pretend that Passion Pit is as good as the Rolling Stones.
— Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies
T.H. moved through the forest like the melody of a well-known song, in perfect harmony with his surroundings.
— Charles de Lint
Music dispels misery.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A symptom," Brendan said, as if love were a disease only humans could catch. But there was something like fondness or respect in his voice. "You're both fools.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception
Playing in an orchestra is completely different to playing on my own.Sometimes I played, sometimes listened; instead of waiting my turn, I sometimes interrupted another player, sometimes I argued, sometimes agreed.My flute is my mouthpiece and I felt as if I was actually joining in a conversation.
— Kevin Crossley-Holland, Heartsong
Imagine America as one house on a suburban lane. Years before he became a Jehovah's Witness, Prince knocked on America's door through his music. He came to the door holding a guitar and an umbrella while concealing a Bible. He flirted his way inside the door and told us he had a dirty mind and was controversial, and then he sat down in the living room on the good couch. And, when America's guard was down, because we thought we were having a conversation about sex, Prince eased out his Bible and said, "Let me also tell you about my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
— Touré, I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon
To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to imagine a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
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To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Life without playing music is inconceivable for me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music, I get most joy in life out of music.
— Albert Einstein
I was once asked to pick a couple of records for an interview I was doing on Radio 2. I picked one by Will Oldham and one by Joanna Newsom. Someone on the production phoned me to say that I couldn't have either record because they were 'too alternative' and I could just pick two from their playlist. Now, personally, I think that Radio 2's listeners would dig both Joanna Newsom and Will Oldham if they heard their records, and that the fact they don't get to hear them contributes to the cultural wasteland we live in. I told them that I'd been to see Joanna Newsom in the Albert Hall a couple of weeks before and it had been sold out. How could she be 'too alternative'? 'Alternative' and 'mainstream' aren't strictly to do with whether things are popular or minority interest. They are ideological labels. Someone like Joe Pasquale would be called 'mainstream' and regularly pops up on TV, but would play the smaller end of the touring-theatre circuit. If Joanna Newsom can sell out Albert Hall, why can't she get played on Radio 2? I would agree that it's because her work is too layered, challenging and interesting. Think about that. What you get to hear about is filtered, and not filtered to get rid of useless cunts like Joe Pasquale, but of things that might enrich your life.
— Frankie Boyle, Work! Consume! Die!: You Are Bored. This is the Antidote
There are basically three types of songs: loved songs, unloved songs, and transitional songs written by tired people in between the two. Love songs are cheesy, unloved songs are depressing, and transitional songs are poetry. Transitions catch the world on fire, touching on relevant topics while speaking with giddiness and despair of the lover between.
— Ace Boggess, A Song Without a Melody
The Phantom is not famous for forgiveness.
— A.G. Howard, RoseBlood
Tessie allowed Milton to press his clarinet to her skin and fill her body with music. At first it only tickled her. But after a while the notes spread deeper into her body. She felt the vibrations penetrate her muscles, pulsing in waves, until they rattled her bones and made her inner organs hum.
— Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Artists have a unique ability to paint the world, and to help people see injustice. They do it not with guns, but with pens and guitars and paintbrushes.
— Teresa R. Funke, Bursts of Brilliance for a Creative Life blog
When all else fails, there is music. When that fails you, there is beer.
— James Hauenstein
Behind every wall and every mirror and every vent, I hear sounds: breathing, rustling, footsteps, and murmurs. I try to tell myself it’s just mice making their nests behind the barriers, but since when do rodents whisper?
— A.G. Howard, RoseBlood
Record sales don't matter when the people who bought the records are dead and gone.
— Chuck Klosterman
The undistracted experience of affects of just about any sort, when free of practical consequences, appears to have intrinsic appeal for many of us.
— Jenefer Robinson, Music & Meaning
I sing, no matter who is listening coz it is my natural way of expression.
— Jeffy Thomas
Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
— G.K. Chesterton
When “Here Comes the Sun” started, what happened? No, the sun didn’t come out, but Mom opened up like the sun breaking through the clouds. You know how in the first few notes of that song, there’s something about George’s guitar that’s just so hopeful? It was like when Mom sang, she was full of hope, too. She even got the irregular clapping right during the guitar solo. When the song was over, she paused it.“Oh, Bee,” she said. “This song reminds me of you.” She had tears in her eyes.
— Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette
The melody of music!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Deep emotional response to music typically arises as a product of the most intense musical perception. It is generally in virtue of the recognition of emotions expressed in music, or of the emotion-laden gestures embodied in musical movement, that an emotional reaction occurs.
— Jenefer Robinson, Music & Meaning
Theory is a six-letter dirty word to most musicians, but hey, musicians love dirty words, right? And just like all the other dirty words, theory is easy to learn and fun to use!
— Ray Harmony, Hack Music Theory, Part 1: Learn Scales & Chords in 30 minutes