Music Quotes on Creativity & Emotion – Page 6 | GloryQuotes

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

Marguerite Duras

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

Barbara Kruger

We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.

Mike Lowry

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

Franz Liszt

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

Elsa Maxwell

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

Jessica Hagedorn

What's important for me is to communicate the vision that I have in sound with the audience that's hearing it.

John Eaton

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

Michael Tippett

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Noam Chomsky

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

Stephen Sondheim

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

Leo Ornstein

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

Milan Kundera

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.

James Weldon Johnson

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

Wim Wenders

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

Elliott Carter

To me, it's all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music.

Eric Brown

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

Margaret Mead

Good music is very close to primitive language.

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

Bill Veeck

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.

Gordon Getty

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.

Terri Windling

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

Gavin Bryars

Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?

Fred Frith

If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music.

Christo

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

Gyorgy Ligeti

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

Jim Elliot

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.

John Corigliano

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Albert Einstein

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

Mike Figgis

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Henry Ellis

I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.

Kurt Loder

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

Joss Whedon

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Bertrand Russell

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

Hilaire Belloc

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.

Kenneth Noland

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Charles Baudelaire

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.

Gordon Getty

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

David Antin

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

William Kingdon Clifford

A "scream" is always just that - a noise and not music.

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche