Music Quotes - page 10

What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector. (Jacques Attali)
I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent and this is what I have devoted my life to. View quote
Luciano Pavarotti
You are the music while the music lasts. View quote
T. S. Eliot
Music is the melody whose text is the world. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Reporter: How many people who labor in the same musical vineyard in which you toil - how many are protest singers? That is, people who use their music, and use the songs to protest the, uh, social state in which we live today: the matter of war, the matter of crime, or whatever it might be. Bob Dylan: Uh, I think there's about, uh...136. Reporter: You say about 136, or you mean exactly 136? Bob Dylan: Uh, it's either 136 or 142. View quote
Bob Dylan
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. View quote
Bob Dylan
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else. View quote
Bob Dylan
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. View quote
Paul Simon
My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever. View quote
Bob Marley
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. View quote
Bob Marley
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. (Franz Liszt)
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Music is what I breathe, what I love to do. It keeps me alive. View quote
Miley Cyrus
People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and say «I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.». View quote
Audrey Hepburn
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. View quote
Heinrich Heine
For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in. View quote
George Steiner
A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen. View quote
George Steiner
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess. View quote
George Steiner
Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark. View quote
William Wordsworth
When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone. (William Wordsworth)
He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own. View quote
William Wordsworth
Music is my life -- acting's just a hobby. View quote
Steve Burns
There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Music is in the space between the notes. View quote
Claude Debussy