Famous Music Quotes Part – 13

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It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

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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.

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

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It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn love.

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It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit — enable them to see visions and dream dreams.’ Eric Anderson

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It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

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It is the medicine of the breaking heart.

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites –opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity –where energies flow smoothly in one direction –there will be much doing but no music.

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It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else remain forever unuttered and unutterable; it feeds that deep, ineradicable instinct within us of which all art is only the reverberated echo, that craving to express, through the medium of the senses, the spiritual and eternal realities which underlie them.

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It sank deep into his heart, like the melody of a song sounding from out of childhood’s days. [Ger., Sie zog tief in sein Herz, wie die Melodie eines Liedes, die aus der Kindheit heraufklingt.]

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It wakes a glad remembrance of our youth, calls back past joys, and warms us into transport.

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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That’s how we got ‘Backstreet.’ We put ‘Boys’ on it, because no matter how old we get, we’ll always be boys.

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It’s a marvelous feeling when someone says ‘I want to do this song of yours’ because they’ve connected to it. That’s what I’m after.

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It’s easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself. Johann Sebastian Bach quotes

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I’ve always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

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I’ve banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.

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I’ve been taking lessons for a year or so and every time I hear a piano playing, it goes through and through me, so I’m going to buy a little piano.

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I’ve outdone anyone you can name — Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

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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.


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