Quotes and Sayings About Music
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.
-- A. R. Rahman -
It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.
-- Aaliyah -
I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.
-- Aaliyah -
Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
-- Aaron CarterSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
-- Aaron CoplandSource : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."
-- Aaron CoplandSource : What to Listen for in Music (1939) ch. 2
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So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
-- Aaron CoplandSource : Aaron Copland, Richard Kostelanetz (2004). “Aaron Copland: A Reader : Selected Writings 1923-1972”, p.32, Psychology Press
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When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.
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Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.
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There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.
-- Aaron CoplandSource : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.10, Harvard University Press
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I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.
-- Abbey Lincoln -
I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.
-- Abbey Lincoln -
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I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
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If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose, To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave. The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur'd dance of all. And this is Musick.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
-- Abraham Maslow -
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I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
-- Ace Frehley -
I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
-- AdeleSource : "Adele Opens Up About Her Inspirations, Looks and Stage Fright", www.rollingstone.com. April 28, 2011.
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The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.
-- Adele -
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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
-- Agnes Repplier -
Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.
-- Ahmad Alaadeen -
I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.
-- Ahmad Jamal -
Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.
-- Ahmad Jamal -
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The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.
-- Ahmad Jamal -
Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.
-- Ahmad Jamal -
There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
-- Aimee Mann -
The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.
-- Al Capp -
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
-- Al Jarreau -
Once you discover that you can, then you must.
-- Al Jarreau