“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”
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“My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.”
“Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.”
“It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.”
“I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.”
“Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'”
“If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.”
“For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.”
“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”
“I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.”
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.”
“Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.”
“I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.”
“Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.”
“Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.”
“Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.”
“Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.”
“Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.”
“We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.”
“Some music really does suck!”
“Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.”
“Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.”
“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.”
“I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.”