Quotes about music
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Original: (it) La musica è la compagna ideale nei momenti tristi, difficili o di gioia. La divina sostanza che crea emozione in ogni situazione.
Source: prevale.net

Sadness

“Life is like music, made of highs, mids and lows. Equalize the various tones so that you can make it wonderful.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La vita è come la musica, fatta di alti, medi e bassi. Equalizza i vari toni affinché tu riesca a renderla meravigliosa.
Source: prevale.net

Life, Making love

“Music keeps me alive.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) La musica mi tiene in vita.
Source: prevale.net

“Music is the beating that puts hearts in harmony.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) La musica è il battito che mette i cuori in armonia.
Source: prevale.net

Heart

“Harmonize your day by putting music and words in time with your heart.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Armonizza la tua giornata mettendo musica e parole a tempo con il cuore.
Source: prevale.net

Time, Heart

“People born for music could not live without it.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Le persone nate per la musica non potrebbero viverne senza.
Source: prevale.net

People

“Turn off your thoughts and feed yourself on music.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Spegnete i pensieri e nutritevi di musica.
Source: prevale.net

“It feeds the heart of music and the soul of smiles.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Alimenta il cuore di musica e l'anima di sorriso.
Source: prevale.net

Smile, Soul, Heart

“I enlighten of music.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) M'illumino di musica.
Source: prevale.net

“Buy music, feeds the main element of emotions.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Acquista musica, alimenta l'elemento principale delle emozioni.
Source: prevale.net

“Love and music, a perfect combination for a better world.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Amore e musica, una combinazione perfetta per un mondo migliore.
Source: prevale.net

Love, World, Making love, Perfection

“I choose the music because the rest sucks.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Scelgo la musica perché il resto fa schifo.
Source: prevale.net

“Music allows me to disconnect from my present reality, and communicate to my future wisdom.”

Isaac Mashman (2000) businessman, speaker

Wisdom, Communication, Reality, Future

“I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in…That's what everyone should do with their lives…stand up for what they believe in, or try to do some good in the world. I don't think artists have a greater responsibility than anyone else.”

Tracy Chapman (1964) American singer-songwriter

On how artist expression can be a form of political activism in “A militant mellows” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2002/sep/28/artsfeatures.popandrock in The Guardian (27 Sep 2002)

World, Thinking

“When the music does not dance, it changes disc.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

From the Aphorisms http://www.prevale.net/aphorisms.html page of the official website of Prevale

Change, Dance

“People don't understand how important it is for funk to be funky, the only way to do that is to allow space to happen. Space is the most important part of music, it's the space that allows the song to breathe that's so important.”

Sheila E. (1957) American singer and percussionist

On her collaboration with Prince on the song “Erotic City” in “An Interview with the Legendary Sheila E” https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/z4ngbx/an-interview-with-the-legendary-sheila-e in Vice Magazine (2016 Dec 18)

People, Way, Understanding, Parting

“I choose the music because the rest sucks.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

From the Aphorisms http://www.prevale.net/aphorisms.html page of the official website of Prevale

“It’s always been like this. Every generation finds its own way to show that it isn’t like the one before. Too much risk, too much sex, terrible music, not enough respect for the old ways. This is no different.”

Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States

Rates of Change (with Ty Franck as James S. A. Corey), in Meeting Infinity (2015), edited by Jonathan Strahan, and published by Solaris ISBN 978-1-84997-922-1, e-book edition

Sex, Way

“Today, music heralds… the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.”

Jacques Attali (1943) French economist

Source: Quotations of the Day: September 2003, https://www.bartleby.com/quotations/092003.html

“For me, filmmaking is but a means of achieving things that one cannot achieve with either literature or music.”

Kaori Momoi (1952) Japanese actress

Kaori Momoi http://www.midnighteye.com/interviews/kaori-momoi/ (16 March 2008)

Literature

“If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured, or far away.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Walden

“I think music is like my only talent, unfortunately. I just utilized it as much as possible.”

Alessia Cara (1996) Canadian singer

Interview with Universal Music Korea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI68Ue0sPfo (October 2018)

Thinking

“Only those who listen to music with the heart can experience the vibrations of love.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Solo chi ascolta musica col cuore riesce a provare le vibrazioni dell'amore.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Heart

“Music is timeless. A good piece of yesterday, it's beautiful today and it will be beautiful tomorrow.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) La musica è senza tempo. Un bel brano di ieri, è bello oggi e sarà bello domani.
Source: prevale.net

Beauty

“Music communicates and the soul receives, the heart guards the love that unites.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) La musica comunica e l'anima recepisce, il cuore custodisce l'amore che unisce.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Soul, Communication, Heart

“Let the music illuminate the path of your life.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Lascia che sia la musica ad illuminare la strada della tua vita.
Source: prevale.net

Life

“Existence is made up of little things. Turn off the TV, turn on the music… and make love with life.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) L'esistenza è fatta di piccole cose. Spegnete la TV, accendete la musica... e fate l'amore con la vita.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Life, Making love

“I wrote pages of music that tell the story. Life of rhythm, friendship, love, fun and pure emotion. Pages to live and let live again, in all the hearts that beat at dance time.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Ho scritto pagine di musica che narrano storia. Vita di ritmo, amicizia, amore, divertimento ed emozione allo stato puro. Pagine da vivere e far vivere ancora, in tutti i cuori che battono a tempo di dance.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Life, Friendship, Time

“Being a music producer is a mission. It does not mean creating music to keep up with the times, but creating songs to convey emotions.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Essere un produttore musicale è una missione. Non vuol dire creare musica per stare al passo con i tempi, ma ideare canzoni per trasmettere emozioni.
Source: prevale.net

Time

“While the whole world is attracted and distracted by unnecessary criticism, music writes history.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Mentre il mondo intero è attratto e distratto da critiche inutili, la musica scrive la storia.
Source: prevale.net

World, History

“Music enters the soul when the sound generates emotion.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) La musica entra nell'anima nel momento in cui il suono genera emozione.
Source: prevale.net

Soul

“Music colors the soul.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) La musica colora l'anima.
Source: prevale.net

Color, Soul

“Music dominates emotions.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) La musica domina le emozioni.
Source: prevale.net

“When music is pure expression, the soul sculpts the sound.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Quando la musica è pura espressione, l'anima scolpisce il suono.
Source: prevale.net

Soul

“Of music and happiness, always make your lifestyle.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Di musica e felicità, fanne sempre il tuo stile di vita.
Source: prevale.net

Happiness

“Music first of all and after you.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La musica prima di tutto e dopo di te.
Source: prevale.net

“The musical note is the language of intelligence. Intelligence speaks wherever there is poetry, music and song. Colour is part of it. We love colours because we come from colour. Colour and sound.”

J. Posadas (1912–1981) Argentine Trotskyist (1912-1981)

On the Socialist Future of Humanity, 1981

Love, Intelligence, Parting

“The Introductory chords dissolve the dream which the music has evoked, and we are back once more in the world of reality.”

Walter Raymond Spalding (1865–1962) American music pedagogue and author

On the Coda of the Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, page 187 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA187. Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Schumann and Mendelssohn (Ch. XIII)

World, Dreams, Reality

“A knowledge of Bach is the beginning of musical wisdom.”

Walter Raymond Spalding (1865–1962) American music pedagogue and author

Page 47 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA47. Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Polyphonic Music; Sebastian Bach (Ch. III)

Wisdom, Knowledge

“The rhythm of music, akin to the human heart-beat and to the ceaseless change and motion, which is the basic fact in all life, apeals at once to our own physical vitality.”

Walter Raymond Spalding (1865–1962) American music pedagogue and author

Page 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3. Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Preliminary Considerations (Ch. I)

Life, Change, Heart

“One of the peculiar characteristics of music is that it is both the most natural and least artificial of the arts, and as well the most complicated and subtle.”

Walter Raymond Spalding (1865–1962) American music pedagogue and author

Page 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3. Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Preliminary Considerations (Ch. I)

Art, Nature

“Of all the arts, music makes the most direct appeal to the emotions and to those shadowy, but real portions of our being called the imagination and the soul. Emotion is as indispensible to music as love to religion.”

Walter Raymond Spalding (1865–1962) American music pedagogue and author

Page 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3. Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Preliminary Considerations (Ch. I)

Love, Religion, Art, Soul

“Music is of such power and glory that we should be ready to devote to its study as much time as to a foreign language.”

Walter Raymond Spalding (1865–1962) American music pedagogue and author

Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Preface

Study, Time

“Music requires active cooperation by the hearer.”

Walter Raymond Spalding (1865–1962) American music pedagogue and author

Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Preface

“I feel it is really different to be there at a show. It is such a great feeling and I hope that doesn’t die with the Internet as so many other things have. Go out, support those bands, have a beer, listen to some live music and don’t forget about it!”

Allison Robertson (1979) American musician

Round and Round with The Donnas: An Interview with Allison Robertson https://www.iconvsicon.com/2008/03/07/round-and-round-with-the-donnas-an-interview-with-allison-robertson/ (7 March 2008)

Hope, Feeling, Beer, Support

“I like Hip-Hop music. I like electronic music. I like, you know - I can get a lot of energies from the young people.”

Cui Jian (1961) Chinese rock musician of Korean descent

Interview with CNN (2012)

People

“I think rock music is more personal for me. I have more freedom. I can show more of my personal emotions in rock and roll music. With classical music, I can only play something that is written already.”

Cui Jian (1961) Chinese rock musician of Korean descent

"Cui Jian: Father of Chinese Rock 'N' Roll in UCLA Global (3 June 2005) https://international.ucla.edu/institute/article/11612

Thinking, Freedom, Personality

“I had a lot of friends who worked in foreign embassies so I had the chance to exchange music tapes. That's the way I listened to a lot of rock music at that time”

Cui Jian (1961) Chinese rock musician of Korean descent

"Chinese rock legend sings on" in BBC (25 August 2010) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-11067241

Way, Chance, Time

“I don't even want people to say I'm the godfather of Chinese rock music. I would like to say I'm the grandson of Chinese rock music. I want to keep doing something, I don't want to sit there and tell people what you should do. I don't like that.”

Cui Jian (1961) Chinese rock musician of Korean descent

"Rocker Cui Jian Says his Music Hasn't Changed but China Has" in Voice of America (30 December 2015) https://www.voanews.com/east-asia/rocker-cui-jian-says-his-music-hasnt-changed-china-has

People

“Most things around are very similar in every respect, the music and the way people look. In order to be in a band, you have to have certain colors in your hair—still! Our image is striking because it is different, not because it is particularly outstanding.”

Sade Adu (1959) English singer-songwriter

On the appeal of her band in “Sade: Our 1985 Interview” https://www.spin.com/featured/sade-diamond-life-interview-may-1985/ in SPIN (2019 Jul 20) Music

People, Color, Way

“I think music is like my only talent.”

Alessia Cara (1996) Canadian singer

Interview with Universal Music Korea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI68Ue0sPfo (October 2018)

Thinking

“If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.”

Luciano Pavarotti (1935–2007) Italian operatic tenor

As quoted in A Gift of Days: The Greatest Words to Live By (2009), p. 81, by Stephen Alcorn

Children, Age

“Don't judge me from my looks or the way I act, cause judging someone else can make you unworthy, thank to God for the gift of music he gave me!!”

Marvelous MMW (2005) Nigerian gospel singer and songwriter

Marvelous MMW on his Twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/marvelousjesus1, @marvelousjesus1 (September 23, 2021)

God, Way

“The main thing is to remain yourself, and this is impossible for a professional actor. Although it is difficult to think ahead. It seems to me that cinema and music, complementing each other, can coexist in my life.”

Viktor Tsoi (1962–1990) Soviet rock musician (1962-1990)

"Appendix I. Viktor Tsoi: interview diary" https://ik-ptz.ru/en/istoriya/prilozhenie-i-viktor-coi-dnevnik-intervyu-fragmenty-iz-odnoimennoi.html

Life, Thinking

“All over the world, for those who are part of it, music, entertainment and art are a work of emotions: be grateful.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) In tutto il mondo, per chi ne fa parte, musica, intrattenimento ed arte sono un'opera di emozioni: siatene grati.
Source: prevale.net

World, Art, Parting

“Young people have to stop flattering themselves that they're Nostradamus and would have foreseen, had they been around then, everything that's unacceptable now. And for further context Mel Brooks wrote one of the most successful musicals of all time around the song 'Springtime for Hitler.'”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

New Rule: ‘The Woke Olympics’, (2021)

People, Time, Success

“I like a certain amount of tension in music…I like the kind of music that maybe makes you think about the status quo.”

Kim Gordon (1953) American musician, bassist of Sonic Youth

On her ideal music in “Kim Gordon unmasked: a natural instinct of going against the grain” https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/kim-gordon-unmasked-a-natural-instinct-of-going-against-the-grain-20190805-p52dxg.html in The Sydney Morning Herald (2019 Aug 9)

Thinking

“I love a lot of different genres of music, but, to me, the most exciting genre right now, and probably for the past two decades, is hip hop. That’s where the most innovation is, although electronic music now is starting to produce some real interesting stuff, and I’m really digging on that a lot.”

Richard Wolf American music producer

Composer Spotlight: Richard Wolf https://www.mixonline.com/sfp/composer-spotlight-richard-wolf-369033 (January 1, 2002)

Love, Past

“I would probably say that music is one of the most expressive art forms for me. Of course, I don’t perform professionally, though it does play a huge role: it helps me think differently and want to go on living.”

Chulpan Khamatova (1975) Russian actress

As quoted in "An interview with Chulpan Khamatova" in Mariinsky Theatre (28 February 2012) https://www.mariinsky.ru/en/news1/interview1/interview_with_chulpan_khamatova/

Art, Thinking, Help

“The purest way to communicate the human condition is through the beauty of music.”

Edward W. Hardy (1992) American composer, musician and producer

From an interview in “My Favorite Song: Edward W. Hardy of 'The Woodsman'” https://12e3365e-df7a-3f83-6964-dce78c2d6819.filesusr.com/ugd/118bef_84bd82e1c6e1489da21ac1822508662c.pdf NewYork.com (2016 May 13), “‘Why we joined the union’ - Edward W. Hardy” https://www.local802afm.org/allegro/articles/new-members-feb-2020-4/ Allegro Magazine - Local 802 AFM (2020 Feb 4)

Beauty, Way, Communication

“A man's character is formed by the Odes, developed by the Rites and perfected by music.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Quoted from Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage.
The Analects, Chapter I, Chapter VIII

Perfection

“All of one's life is a music, if one touches the notes rightly and in time.”

John Ruskin book The Ethics of the Dust

Lecture IV: The Crystal Orders, section 35
The Ethics of the Dust (1875)

Life, Time

“People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer fucntion.”

David Mitchell book Cloud Atlas

"Letters from Zedelghem", p. 470
Cloud Atlas (2004), Letters from Zedelghem (Part 2)

People

“Yes; as the music changes,
Like a prismatic glass,
It takes the light and ranges
Through all the moods that pass;
Dissects the common carnival
Of passions and regrets,
And gives the world a glimpse of all
The colours it forgets.”

Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) English poet

The Barrel Organ
Poems (1906)

World, Mood, Light, Passion

“Those who value music pay for it. When left unmanaged, they can be left astray and lose the right path. As the listening level rises, the music progresses. The musicians of my generation tried to break the rule of singing.”

Reza Tajbakhsh (1981) Musical artist

Singing

“There's only two kinds of music I don't like....Country and Western.”

Bobby Heenan (1944–2017) American professional wrestler, professional wrestling commentator and manager

Misc.

Country

“I don't recognise such terms as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, and I think it's important that there's someone in pop music who's like that. These words do a great deal of damage, they confuse people and they make people feel unhappy, so I want to do away with them.”

Morrissey (1959) English singer

Source: [239, The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance, and Musical Theater, Claude Summers, Cleis Press Start, 1 November 2004, 9781573448758] In interviews etc., Sexuality

People, Feeling, Thinking

“Music is a gift from heaven.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) La musica è un dono del cielo.
Source: prevale.net

“Men have died for this music. You can’t get more serious than that.”

Ben Aaronovitch book Moon Over Soho

Epigram —Dizzy Gillespie
Source: Moon Over Soho (2011)

Men

“While some bishops may travel with someone to help with the driving, I go by myself. I prefer it that way. I like the solitude. I don't listen to music. I pray and say the Rosary, or think about things. It gives me a lot of time to myself. Not everyone would like it.”

Peter F. Christensen (1952) Catholic bishop

Source: 6 Bishops on Their Favorite Saints, Spirituality https://www.ncregister.com/blog/6-bishops-on-their-favorite-saints-spirituality (21 January 2020)

Way, Travel, Thinking, Solitude

“Sound is defined as the result of a succession of regular and periodic vibrations. Noise is instead caused by motions that are irregular, as much in time as in intensity. 'A musical sensation,' says Helmholtz 'appears to the ear as a perfectly stable, uniform, and invariable sound.'”

Luigi Russolo (1885–1947) Electronic music pioneer and Futurist painter

But the quality of continuity that sound has with respect to noise, which seems instead fragmentary and irregular, is not an element sufficient to make a sharp distinction between sound and noise. We know that the production of sound requires not only that a body vibrate regularly but also that these vibrations persist in the auditory nerve until the following vibration has arrived, so that the periodic vibrations blend to form a continuous musical sound. At least sixteen vibrations per second are needed for this. Now, if I succeed in producing a noise with this speed. I will get a sound made up of the totality of so many noises--or better, noise whose successive repetitions will be sufficiently rapid to give a sensation of continuity like that of sound.
Source: Russolo. English trans. Barclay Brown (1986: 37).

Appearance, Time, Success

“Writing music for me is easy, and is less stressful than a nine-to-five job. What I find hard is going to meetings and dealing with lawyers. The Hollywood lifestyle is hectic and often you have to survive on just four hours sleep before starting again.”

Lorne Balfe (1976) British composer

Source: Composing a career of note in LA https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/composing-career-note-la-2453112 (9 July 2002)

Sleep

“My virgin sense of sound was steeped
In the music of young streams;
And roses through the casement peeped,
And scented all my dreams.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

"Prelude", stanza XI; p. ix., At the Gate of the Convent (1885)

Dreams, Sense

“I felt it was shaving away my soul little by little…The music industry is this supersaturated version of consumerism. You are the product being consumed, bought, and sold. Even the people on your team who are your friends, the very foundation of your dynamic is that they get a percentage of your income. Every time I turned something down, it would mean that they would make less money.”

Mitski (1990) Japanese-American singer-songwriter

Laurel Hell Source: On why she initially decided to leave the music industry in Mitski Had to Quit Music to Love It” https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/mitski-new-album-laurel-hell-cover-story-1272973/ in Rolling Stone (2021 Dec 27)

Money, People, Soul, Time

“This is called the World Breath or ‘Seven’ Breath, and was much practised by the ancient Egyptians who were adepts at physical and physiological culture. Seven, as you know, plays an important part in the plan of the Universe which affects tnis Earth, as for instance, the 7 planets, 7 colours of the spectrum, 7 notes of music, 7 days of the week, etc. If we practise the Seven Breath every morning on awakening, we will tune ourselves in to the forces of growth and progress and derive great benefit and strength from so doing, provided we neither strain nor jerk.”

Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist

Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter XV The Essential Science of Breathing

World, Jerk, Universe, Parting

“The most generous of critics, if he is to be discriminating and just, cannot, let me say again, allow that any verse which is profoundly obscure or utterly unmusical, no matter how intellectual in substance, deserves the appellation of poetry. But on a very thin thread of meaning poetry, or a very fair imitation of it, may be hung by the aid of musical sound.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

Source: The Bridling of Pegasus (1910), "The Essentials of Great Poetry", p. 7.

“[What do you think of music piracy?] Kills music! So, all that is pure emotion.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

From the interview «Carlo Prevale: il DJ che trasmette emozioni con le sue canzoni!» http://www.prevale.net/news-and-releases.html, Corriereinformazione.it Original: (it) [Cosa pensi della pirateria musicale?] Uccide la musica! Quindi, tutto ciò che è pura emozione. Source: From the interview by Federico Valenti, «Carlo Prevale: il DJ che trasmette emozioni con le sue canzoni!», Corriereinformazione.it, August 22, 2010; on Prevale.net http://www.prevale.net/news-and-releases.html.

Thinking

“I make elevating music, you make elevator music”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"Rap God"
2010s, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013)

“It's all political; if my music is literal and I'm a criminal, how the fuck can I raise a little girl?
I couldn't, I wouldn't be fit to”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"Sing For The Moment"
2000s, The Eminem Show (2002)

Girl

“They say music can alter moods and talk to you
Well, can it load a gun up for you and cock it too?
If it can, then the next time you assault a dude
Just tell the judge that it was my fault, and I'll get sued”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"Sing For The Moment"
2000s, The Eminem Show (2002)

Mood, Time

“Maybe it's hatred I spew, maybe it's food for the spirit
Maybe it's beautiful music I made for you to just cherish”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"Renegade" (featured on Jay-Z's Blueprint, 2001)
2000s

Food, Beauty

“Music is like a life without fatigue”

Yosef Hisham Shami

Life

“Music is like the days behind you in the worst of circumstances”

Yosef Hisham Shami

“Music is an art and a day full of meaning”

10racksss

Art

“If music is a word, it is a beautiful world for me”

10racksss

World, Beauty

“Climate and the world Music is a beautiful world”

10racksss

World, Beauty

“I'd hate to be a man. I feel sorry for them, being so career driven. In the music industry there's so many of them, whereas as a woman you can make waves.”

Sandie Shaw (1947) English pop singer

Hate, Feeling

“Upbeat tunes make us want to dance around our kitchens and invite friends for dinner. But it's sad music that makes us want to touch the sky.”

Susan Cain book Bittersweet

Bittersweet, Chapter 2 at p. 36

Sadness, Dance

“When you listen to music, you can transcend your own pain and turn towards another and feel bonded with the whole of humanity because you know that they have felt that grief and love. By expressing it, by communing with that song or picture, you realize you are not alone.”

Susan Cain book Bittersweet

Walker, Suzy (interviewer). "The Big Happiness Interview: Susan Cain on how embracing sadness can make us happier", Metro, June 5, 2022.
Bittersweet

Love, Pain, Feeling, Communication

“I'm so in love with making EPs as opposed to full length albums. I see it as a way to release new music twice as often, so nothing gets stale or old.”

Marian Renta

—Twitter. November 1, 2021. Social media Source: @RealMarianRenta (November 1, 2021). "I'm so in love with making EPs as opposed to full length albums. I see it as a way to release new music twice as often, so nothing gets stale or old." https://twitter.com/RealMarianRenta/status/1455312360135069699 (Tweet). Retrieved April 16, 2022 – via Twitter.

Love, Way

“Music first of all and after you.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

La musica prima di tutto e dopo di te.

“We need to see how dance, music, theater, art, poetry, are major arenas for alliance-building, especially among youth. Culture can usher in new visions”

Elizabeth Martinez (1925) American community organizer, activist, author, and educator

De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century (2017)

Youth, Art, Dance

“As melody is in music ornament is in architecture revelation of the poetic-principle, with character and significance.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

“When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.”

Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter

People

The quote is mistakenly attributed to the author

“The earth has its music for those who will listen.”

Reginald Vincent Holmes

Often misattributed to Shakespeare, because the words remind us of “If music be the food of love play on”. Statement is also commonly associated with Santayana, but no source or attribution can be found in his works or correspondence.
Variant: The earth has music for those who listen.
Source: Book Fireside Fancies, Poem The Magic of Sound. 1955.
Context: I've heard the soft whisper of wind in the pine trees,
The silvery ripple of brooklets at play;
I've heard the low voice of a sweet singing mother
As she sang to her child at the end of the day.

I've heard the faint rustle of sails in the sunset
And blue waves caressing the wild, rockbound shore;
The whistle of trains as they cross the green prairie
And mountains re-echo the cataract’s roar.

The notes of the organs in ancient cathedrals,
Where hearts of the faithful are lifted in song;
I've heard the gay laughter as children were playing,
The chatter and buzz of a large, happy throng.

The earth has its music for those who will listen;
Its bright variations forever abound.
With all of the wonders that God has bequeathed us,
There's nothing that thrills like the magic of sound.

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