Music Quotes on Creativity & Emotion – Page 4 | GloryQuotes

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.

Bruce Sterling

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

Neil Innes

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

Igor Stravinsky

There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.

Nobuo Uematsu

Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.

Giorgio Moroder

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

Henry Flynt

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Pythagoras

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

George Crumb

The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.

Don Van Vliet

The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.

Bruce Beresford

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

James Stephens

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

Leon Kass

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

Gavin Bryars

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?

Igor Stravinsky

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

Peter De Vries

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Charles de Lint

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

Marcus Fabius Quintilian

If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it.

Ken Hill

'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

Ben Jonson

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

George Santayana

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

Jeffery Deaver

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.

Tony Snow

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

Pierre Loti

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Edgar Allan Poe

This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.

George Crumb

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

Gavin Bryars

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Gustave Flaubert

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

Gyorgy Ligeti

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

Ken Burns

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

Charles Olson

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

Charles Ives

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

Marshall McLuhan

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

Carlisle Floyd

However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.

Nobuo Uematsu

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

Conrad Hall

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

Harrison Birtwistle

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

Demosthenes

In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

Leo Ornstein

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

George Crumb