Music Quotes on Creativity & Emotion – Page 9 | GloryQuotes

I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums.

Nobuo Uematsu

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.

Lukas Foss

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

Barbara Sher

For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.

Richard Morris

Philosophy is the highest music.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

Larry Wall

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Tennessee Williams

Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.

George Crumb

I don't think events in your life affect your music.

Gordon Getty

58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

Cindy Sheehan

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

Alexander Smith

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

Harrison Birtwistle

I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

John Eaton

You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.

Julie Taymor

In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.

Emanuel Celler

There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.

Barbara Kruger

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Lawrence Durrell

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Steve Jobs

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

Richard Wagner

Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.

Peter R. Grant

Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.

Kevin Rollins

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.

Giorgio Moroder

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Robert Browning

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Baruch Spinoza

I don't think there is much American music.

Harrison Birtwistle

My son always says I like very weird music.

Cornelia Funke

As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

Calvin Trillin

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

Satyajit Ray

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

Ann Beattie

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Igor Stravinsky

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

Aaron McGruder

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

Igor Stravinsky

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.

Michael Porter

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

David Antin

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

Stanley Crouch

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

Rabindranath Tagore

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

Pierre Schaeffer

A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

Stephen Sondheim

We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.

Francis Ford Coppola

When we separate music from life we get art.

John Cage

When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

Lars von Trier

There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.

Carlisle Floyd

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

Karl Lagerfeld

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

Spike Lee

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

Nobuo Uematsu

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

Todd Gitlin

One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns.

Len G. Murray