Music Quotes on Creativity & Emotion – Page 5 | GloryQuotes

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

Frank Capra

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.

George Crumb

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

Jacques Barzun

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

Phillips Brooks

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

Stephen Sondheim

This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.

Michael Tippett

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

John James Audubon

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Vladimir Nabokov

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Miguel de Cervantes

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.

Alex North

Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

Xun Zi

I don't know anyone who would be exclusively working on game music, per se.

Nobuo Uematsu

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

Rudyard Kipling

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

Rutherford B. Hayes

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

Gabriel Marcel

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

Fred Frith

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

Ken Hill

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Ludwig van Beethoven

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

Franz Liszt

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

George Jean Nathan

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

Henry Flynt

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

John Keats

We decide based on how people look; we decide based on how people sound; we decide based on how people are dressed. We decide based on their passion.

Frank Luntz

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.

Marc Newson

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.

George Crumb

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

Muriel Rukeyser

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

Jessica Hagedorn

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

Harrison Birtwistle

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

Ralph Bakshi

I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.

Mario Cuomo

He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Mary Kay Ash

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Ludwig van Beethoven

There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.

Fred Frith

If music be the food of love, play on.

William Shakespeare

Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

Edgard Varese

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

Edward Witten

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.

Giorgio Moroder

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.