Lionel Richie (1949) American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor
All Night Long (All Night).
Song lyrics, Can't Slow Down (1983)
Original: Non suonate mai la vostra musica per chi non è in grado di concepirla.
Source: prevale.net
Lionel Richie (1949) American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor
All Night Long (All Night).
Song lyrics, Can't Slow Down (1983)
Josh Homme (1973) American musician
Reported in Jay Babcock, " JOSHUA HOMME: People say [record] labels are evil. No, they’re just lame. http://www.arthurmag.com/2007/12/04/josh-homme-people-say-labels-are-evil-no-theyre-just-lame/", Arthur Magazine (December 4, 2007).
“Lady Madonna lying on the bed
Listen to the music playing in your head.”
Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer
“I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.”
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) German late baroque era composer
“Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.”
Patrick Rothfuss (1973) American fantasy writer
“To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.”
Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999) American violinist and conductor
Source: Rene J. Smith The Spirit of Flight http://books.google.co.in/books?id=Euu4e-4qNAUC&pg=PT30, Peter Pauper Press, Inc., 15 January 2012, p. 30
Benjamin Boretz (1934) American composer
from Meta-Variations: studies in the foundations of musical thought Red Hook, N.Y. : Open Space, 1995.
“Those who dance appear insane to those who cannot hear the music.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Misattributed
First recorded appearance: Germaine de Staël's On Germany (1813). ". . . sometimes even in the habitual course of life, the reality of this world disappears all at once, and we feel ourselves in the middle of its interests as we should at a ball, where we did not hear the music; the dancing that we saw there would appear insane." There are several other pre-Nietzsche examples, indicating that the phrase was widespread in the nineteenth-century; it was referred to in 1927 as an "old proverb".
