Music Quotes · Page 1,378

“The people had come to witness a sensational case, to see celebrities, to get material for conversation, to be seen, to kill…

— Ayn Rand

“She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that…

— Charlotte Brontë

“See your own life more clearly today—right here, right now in this moment—by refusing to ignore that which stirs passion and excitement…

— Wayne W. Dyer

“Whenever a noise exceeds our processing abilities—we can’t decipher all the different sound waves hitting our hair cells— the mind . .…

— Brian Boyd

Welcome to where time stands still No one leaves and no one will Moon is full, never seems to change Just labelled…

— Nikolas3 Qoutes

“I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you, And you must not be abased…

— Walt Whiman

“The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. One may see this even in the…

— Oliver Sacks

“When they find out what I do for a living, many people tell me they love music listening, but their music lessons…

— Daniel J. Levitin

“If I am right, then enjoying music involves a kind of outward-going sympathetic movement. In music, as in sex and architecture, the…

— Roger Scruton

“Come up into the hills, O my young love. Return! O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again, as…

— Thomas Wolfe

“I hear the question upon your lips: What is it to be a colour? Colour is the touch of the eye, music…

— Orhan Pamuk

“From them her hands moved on, random as her passing thoughts. She sketched vagrant airs, or snatches of jigs and reels, slowed…

— Barbara Hambly

“Aubade to Langston" When the light wakes & finds again the music of brooms in Mexico, when daylight pulls our hands from…

— Rachel Eliza Griffiths

“Places I love come back to me like music, Hush me and heal me when I am very tired; I see the…

— Sara Teasdale

“One must learn to love.— This is what happens to us in music: first one has to learn to hear a figure…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I closed my eyes, listened to the music, and began sipping the coffee. It was ungodly strong but also delicious, and I…

— Barry Eisler

“Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, once told me that when a brass band plays at a small club back up…

— Tom Piazza

“The days are passing so quickly. This is the only time of year when I want to slow time down. I spend…

— Damien Echols

“I played a few rough versions of songs while Chad sat by, looking lost. Mia came in wearing black leather pants and…

— Renee Carlino

“Dave and Serge...played the Fiddler's Elbow as if it were Giants Stadium, and even though it was acoustic, they just about blew…

— Nick Hornby

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— AaRon CcHan

“Blue pencils, blue noses, blue movies, laws, blue legs and stockings, the language of birds, bees and flowers as sung by longshoremen,…

— William H. Gass

“Bad music is a form of murder to the true art of music in general.Bad music forced on a child is abuse…

— Corey Taylor

“And as the music ended, he saw her, like a woman in a romance, pull from her cotton sleeve a note that…

— Michael Ondaatje

“For some reason, the sight of snow descending on fire always makes me think of the ancient world – legionaries in sheepskin…

— Anthony Powell

“. . . Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Can I give you my gift now?” Blake reached in his pocket. “You gave me this already.” Livia wiggled her ring finger.…

— Debra Anastasia

“Well," he said with equanimity, "you see, in my opinion there is no point at all in talking about music. I never…

— Hermann Hesse

“A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second…

— Haruki Murakami

“One of the more interesting things you'll notice in the entire history of poetry & poets, art & artists is those useless…

— R.M. Engelhardt

“Coleridge wrote a poem called ‘The Eolian Harp,’ in which he explored the notion of music slumbering on its instrument. It's a…

— Amal El-Mohtar

“The melody drifted into an aching silence. Austin lifted his head, and she saw his tears, trailing along his cheeks, glistening in…

— Lorraine Heath

Na na na na na na na na yeah You are the music in me You know the words once upon a…

— She's_gone

“Fifteen of his clubs, dedicated to politics, music, and the performing arts, had all been developing strategic plans for the past two…

— Ilya Ilf

“During World War II, rationing in Russia had made vinyl prohibitively expensive, and cheap X-ray film became the bootleg music industry’s substitute.…

— Donnie Eichar

“Poets represent love as sculptors design beauty, as musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they…

— Alfred De Musset

“SOME GREAT ACTORS are like musicians who just happen to be brilliant at their instrument. They are, in every other way, perfectly…

— Mick LaSalle

“Kaitlyn remebered the things he'd given her, the sun-flooded afternoons, and the cool healing ocean waves, and the music he'd written. He'd…

— L.J. Smith

“Speaking generally, there are two kinds of descriptive music. The first comes under the heading of literal description. A composer wishes to…

— Aaron Copland

“Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee and listening to music that for…

— Kalyn Roseanne Livernois