Famous Music Quotes Part – 23

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Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

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See deep enough, and you see musically; the heart of nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it.

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See to their desks Apollo’s sons repair, Swift rides the rosin o’er the horse’s hair! In unison their various tones to tune, Murmurs the hautboy, growls the hoarse bassoon; In soft vibration sighs the whispering lute, Tang goes the harpischord, too-too flute, Brays the loud trumpet, squeaks the fiddle sharp, Winds the French-horn, and twangs the tingling harp; Till, like great Jove, the leader, figuring in, Attunes to order the chaotic din.

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See, I was nine years old when I saw Elvis on ‘Ed Sullivan’, and I had to get a guitar the next day. I stood in front of my mirror with that guitar on. . . and I knew then that’s what had been missing.

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Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony, but organically I am incapable of a tune.

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She played upon her music-box a fancy air by chance, And straightway all her polka-dots began a lively dance.

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Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven.

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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

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Sitting on a bank, Weeping again the King my father’s wrack, This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air.

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So dischord ofte in musick makes the sweeter lay.

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Soft is the music that would charm forever: The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.

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Some of the fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination; as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.

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Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her heart may know What secret makes them so. Love, only Love.

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Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.

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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

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Strange how potent cheap music is.

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Strange! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long.

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Such is the sociableness of music, it conforms itself to all companies, both in mirth and mourning; complying to improve that passion with which it finds the auditors most affected.

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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

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Sweet music! sacred tongue of God.


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