Music Quotes on Creativity & Emotion – Page 7 | GloryQuotes

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Ludwig van Beethoven

When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.

Maurice Jarre

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Soren Kierkegaard

Napster works because people who love music share and participate.

Shawn Fanning

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.

I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.

Taylor Hackford

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Lewis Thomas

For over ten years or so game music has developed into a very large market.

Nobuo Uematsu

The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.

John Eaton

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

Fred Frith

I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Henry David Thoreau

Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.

Gunther Schuller

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

Aneurin Bevan

The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important.

Burt Bacharach

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

Walter Savage Landor

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

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

Robert Caro

I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.

Leo Ornstein

I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.

Anthony Holden

I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

Alain Resnais

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

Martin Fleischmann

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

Jonathan Edwards

They say women and music should never be dated.

Oliver Goldsmith

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

Pope John Paul II

People don't have fun making music all the time.

Ken Hill

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

David Amram

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Jonathan Franzen

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

Walter Pater

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.

Richard Morris

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

Igor Stravinsky

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time.

Brian De Palma

Ironically, we live in times that are awash in authentic sacred music.

Richard Morris

Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean.

Richard Morris

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

Alfred de Musset

In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.

David Baker

The study of music was a family interest.

Emanuel Celler

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

Satyajit Ray

Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.

Ken Hill

There are so many songs that we just don't play anymore.

Mike Lowry

I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.

Jessica Hagedorn

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

Alan Hovhaness

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

Morris West

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

Claude Debussy