Music Quotes on Creativity & Emotion – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

Claude Debussy

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

Harrison Birtwistle

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.

Don DeLillo

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Warren G. Bennis

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.

Penelope Spheeris

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

Augustus Hare

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.

Bruce Beresford

I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.

Penelope Spheeris

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

William Wordsworth

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

Stephen Sondheim

Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.

Ann Beattie

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

Charles Baudelaire

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.

Roy H. Williams

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

Lukas Foss

I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.

Genevieve Gorder

So I don't really have a clear plan, in terms of music, as to where I want to head in the future.

Nobuo Uematsu

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

William Shakespeare

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

John Millington Synge

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself.

Richard Morris

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

Paul Valery

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.

Franklin P. Jones

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Herbert Spencer

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

Harrison Birtwistle

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

Michael Tippett

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

Carter Burwell

Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.

Klaus Schulze

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

Don Van Vliet

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

Alfred Hitchcock

And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

Jose Bergamin

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.

Richard Morris

When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.

Bruce Beresford

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

Gordon Getty