Music Quotes - page 4

And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music. (Karlheinz Stockhausen)
Music and silence... combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. View quote
Marcel Marceau
Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. View quote
Henry Miller
I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape. View quote
Thom Yorke
I prefer music that invents a universe. View quote
Matthew Bellamy
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. View quote
Billy Joel
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. View quote
Joseph Addison
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. View quote
Joseph Addison
Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you. (Elvis Costello)
In the next world, I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it. View quote
Ralph Vaughan Williams
What passions cannot music raise or quell? View quote
John Dryden
A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it. View quote
John Millington Synge
Music is only love looking for words. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant. View quote
Ani DiFranco
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. View quote
Robert Browning
They say women and music should never be dated. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Music is essentially useless, as life is. View quote
George Santayana
I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
Music is my God, and it is the only love that has never left me. (Ville Valo)
Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself. View quote
Edie Brickell
I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with each other... View quote
Steve Reich
...in serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing. View quote
Steve Reich