Musical Form Quotes

12 quotes by 10 authors

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of… — James Weldon Johnson
Good rock 'n' roll is something that makes you feel alive. It's something that's human, and I think that most music today isn't. ... To… — Lester Bangs
Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the… — Gavin Bryars
The harmony of the universe knows only one musical form - the legato; while the symphony of number knows only its opposite - the staccato.… — Tobias Dantzig
I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again. — Baz Luhrmann
I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs… — Sting
My definition of Blues is that it's a musical form which is very disciplined and structured coupled with a state of mind, and you can… — Eric Clapton
Rock 'n' roll is an attitude, it's not a musical form of a strict sort. It's a way of doing things, of approaching things. Writing… — Lester Bangs
Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty. — Max Roach
The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of… — Alan Lomax
Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of… — Max Roach
Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears. — Emmylou Harris

Who Wrote These Musical Form Quotes

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