Quotes about music

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“Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward.”

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. … I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.”

“Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music.”

“Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.”

“I love the relationship that anyone has with music… because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out…. It's the best part of us probably…”

“music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of music they listen to.”

“Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn’t have music, I don’t think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn’t have special moments, we would never find music.”

“On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.”

“To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!”

“I'm not an angel, Jace," she repeated. "I don't return library books. I steal illegal music off the internet. I lie to my mom. I am.”

“I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I'm not there, which is almost all the time.”

“Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.”

“Music is the shorthand of emotion”

“… people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.”

“I want to live like music sounds."- Ruth”

“You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard,” I said. “Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music.”

“Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music…”

“Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat;
Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best;
Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.”

“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”

“It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie ofmy life must be really low-budget.”

“They're afraid of change, and we must change. They're afraid of the young, and we are the young. They're afraid of music, and music is our life. They're afraid of books, and knowledge, and ideas. They're most afraid of our magic.”

“Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music: — Do I wake or sleep?”

“It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself”

“There are beautiful sounds in rock. Very lazy, dreamlike noises. You can forget about the lyrics in most songs. Just dig the noise, and you've got your sound… We're musical primitives.”

“When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.”

“Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.”

“The Universe is making music all the time.”

“'Music opens your soul, makes you ready.'
- 'Ready for what?'
- He smiles big. 'Exactly.”

“The older the violin, the sweeter the music.”

“What passion cannot Music raise and quell?”

“Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth…These are the things to fear…”

“I would say that there is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.”

“I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the ’90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.”

“Where are you anyway? (Acheron)
I don't know. I hear some godawful kind of music from outside, horns blaring, and I'm in a house with a Mohawk cuckoo bird, a transvestite, and a knife-wielding lunatic. (Valerius)
Why are you at Tabitha's? (Acheron)”

“I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.”

“I have Van Gogh's ear for music”

“Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.”

“What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?”

“There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.”

“If it weren't for acid, you might not have an IPod, and you definitely would not have some of the best music in your IPod.”

“I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.”

“The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles.”

“We are ugly but we have the music.”

“… for music alone can abolish differences
of language or culture between two people and invoke something indestructible within them.”

“The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.”

“Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach.”

“Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.”

“Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.”

“We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.”

“Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.”

“It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky
like that, I wish I could write music”

“She plays music to heal herself, but nothing can heal her brokenness.”

“Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.”

“It was at that exact moment that I saw Peter walking down the hall toward me. He looked so good. He deserved his own background music.”

“We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings differently. Blacks developed the blues. Jews complained, we just never thought of putting it to music.”

“Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.”

“I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his
passion. He must have looked like an
earthquake walking down the street.”

“Music is my religion.”

“In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.”

“If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.”

“Amanda: Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.”

“The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.”

“For me, music and life are all about style.”

“He put his hand on my waist, and my heart began to pound, a rougher rhythm than the music. I held my skirt. Our free hands met. His felt warm and comforting and unsettling and bewildering--all at once.”

“Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.”

“For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.”

“Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.”

“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.”

“The world is filled with people who are no longer needed -- and who try to make slaves of all of us -- and they have their music and we have ours.”

“Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”

“Music can change the world because it can change people.”

“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”

“There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.”

“It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.”

“Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme --
I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.”

“And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.”

“As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.”

“If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.”

“If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.”

“all that I know is that I believe in
the sound of music and the
running of a horse. all else is
squabble.”

“Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.”

“… lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to “walk about” into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?”

“music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but
you are the music
While the music lasts.”

“but it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music.”

“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”

“Music… will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.”

“Hell is full of musical amateurs.”

“Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.”

“Dancing music, music sad,
Both together, sane and mad…”

“You’re that lady,” Leo said. “The one who was named after Caribbean music.”
Her eyes glinted murderously. “Caribbean music.”
“Yeah. Reggae?” Leo shook his head. “Merengue? Hold on, I’ll get it.”
He snapped his fingers. “Calypso!”

“Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.”

“A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?”

“The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.”

“Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.”

“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”

“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,
Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue.”

“Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words”

“I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.”

“He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.”