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Music Quotes by Alan Watts
- The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play…
- When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.
- A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the…
- We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get…
- Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or that its whole…
- For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret…
- The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition... Same way…
- To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.
- Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening…
- When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing…
- We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the…
- No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the…
- We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do…
More Music Quotes
- I love recording music. — J. J. Abrams
- Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong