Musical Expression Quotes:

Great thoughts ensure musical expression.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations...”

topic: Expression, Musical, Musical Expression

Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.

- James Galway

topic: Expression, Musical, Helping, Musical Expression

Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.

- Ralph Vaughan Williams

source: Ralph Vaughan Williams (2008). “Vaughan Williams on Music”, p.41, Oxford University Press on Demand

topic: Art, Expression, Musical, Musical Expression

An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record. I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time. CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression. Side one and side two? That's a product of vinyl. But that's not necessarily dramatic form - you could argue that that was three acts.

- Annie E. Clark

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Thinking, Long, People, Optimal, Musical Expression

I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.

- Gustavo Dudamel

topic: Opportunity, Expression, Play, Musical Expression

I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.

- Linda Ronstadt

topic: Music, Sorry, Hero, Musical Expression, Shower Curtains

Although music appeals simply to the emotions, and represents no definite images in itself, we are justified in using any language which may serve to convey to others our musical expressions. Words will often pave the way for the more subtle operations of music, and unlock the treasures which sound alone can rifle, and hence the eternal popularity of song.

- Hugh Reginald Haweis

source: Hugh Reginald Haweis (1872). “Music and Morals”, p.246

topic: Song, Expression, Musical, Musical Expression

Musical expression is never primarily national, but is personal and individual rather. It is so deep, so profound, that it goes beyond and below nationality and gives voice to the most private feeling. In music there is never exact heredity. Each man is an individual.

- Ignacy Jan Paderewski

topic: Musical Expression