Music Quotes on Creativity & Emotion – Page 8 | GloryQuotes

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

Jose Bergamin

I am optimistic about the future of music.

George Crumb

Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.

Klaus Schulze

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

John James Audubon

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Ron Chernow

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Allan Bloom

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Thomas Beecham

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like.

John Zorn

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Edith Sitwell

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

David Geffen

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

Stephen Sondheim

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

Paul Tillich

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

Lester Bangs

We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just don't like contemporary Britain.

Francis Maude

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.

Ken Burns

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

Stendhal

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

Sitting Bull

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

Yoko Ono

As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.

Nobuo Uematsu

Species can be recognized by their morphological characteristics and songs.

Peter R. Grant

I listen to music constantly while writing.

Orson Scott Card

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

Tecumseh

I've also directed, shot, and edited several music videos.

Richard King

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

Maria Mitchell

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.

Morton Feldman

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

Marya Mannes

You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.

Sai Baba

I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.

George Crumb

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.

Napolean Hill

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Virgil Thomson

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.

Alex North

As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.

Gunther Schuller

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.

Bruce Beresford

I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.

Neil Innes

It was only later on that I became more interested in older music.

Elliott Carter

You are the music while the music lasts.

The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.

Robert Fitzgerald

You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.

Roy Lichtenstein

Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music.

Nobuo Uematsu

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

Claude Debussy

The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here.

Bob Livingston

If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.

Mencius