“You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.”
Clarice Lispector (1920–1977) Brazilian writer
Source: The Stream of Life
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.”
Clarice Lispector (1920–1977) Brazilian writer
Source: The Stream of Life
“I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.”
George Gershwin (1898–1937) American composer and pianist
Letter to Isaac Goldberg; published in Joan Peyser The Memory of All That (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993) p. 80.
“Let my children have music! Let them hear live music. Not noise.”
Charles Mingus (1922–1979) American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
What Is A Jazz Composer? (1971)
Context: Let my children have music! Let them hear live music. Not noise. My children! You do what you want with your own!
“When a family breaks you don't hear the crack of the breaking. You don't hear a sound.”
Jude Watson (1956) novelist
Source: Strings Attached
“Hears the music under the rock
One of these days he'll stop
Don't stop when the music stops.”
Ysabella Brave (1979) American singer
"Such a Quiet Man (original song!)" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HA6bri22Tk, the first original song she posted to YouTube, about which she wrote: "I got bored so I wrote this song tonight. The music, instruments, the lyrics, backup vocals, everything was me. And yes it is TOTALLY WEIRD!!!!!!" (13 May 2007)