“When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone in the air. You can never capture it again.”
Eric Dolphy (1928–1964) American jazz musician
Said to an audience, as quoted in John Steinbeck Holiday, Vol. 58 (1977), p. 13
Introducing the song "New Feudalism" with The No WTO Combo on (30 November 1999)
“When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone in the air. You can never capture it again.”
Eric Dolphy (1928–1964) American jazz musician
Said to an audience, as quoted in John Steinbeck Holiday, Vol. 58 (1977), p. 13
“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
“Who hears music feels his solitude
Peopled at once.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
Balaustion's Adventure, line 323 (1871).
Source: The complete poetical works of Browning
“See the music, hear the dance.”
George Balanchine (1904–1983) Georgian choreographer, dancer and ballet master (1904-1983)
Elton John (1947) English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist
Bennie and the Jets
Song lyrics, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
“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!
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Polish composer
Said to one of his students, according to "Chopin: Pianist and Teacher: As Seen by His Pupils" by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger
“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)
“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.