909 private quotes tagged music

“He has Van Gogh's ear for music.” — Billy Wilder

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“Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.” — Kin Hubbard

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“My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.” — Yancy Butler

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“No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.” — W. H. Auden

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“Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.” — Jacques Barzun

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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.” — B. B. King

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“Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.” — Isaac Stern

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“My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.” — Paulina Rubio

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“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.” — Gustav Mahler

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“There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.” — Mickey Hart

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“Music should be your escape.” — Missy Elliot

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“My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.” — Ray Charles

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“The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.” — Duke Ellington

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“I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.” — Elvis Presley

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“Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.” — Edgar Winter

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“Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.” — Howard Dietz

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“Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.” — Billy Sheehan

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“Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.” — Johnny Cash

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“Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.” — John Ruskin

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“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” — Pablo Casals

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“Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.” — Billy Joel

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“Music is the strongest form of magic.” — Marilyn Manson

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“Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.” — Brandon Boyd

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“You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.” — David Coverdale

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“Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.” — Keith Richards

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