MUSIC QUOTES III

quotations about music

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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

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The inner nature of man is the province of music.

CONFUCIUS

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I don't read music. And my mom is this classically trained person, and I went the other way. And I think it's helped me write songs that I wouldn't have written if I were going at the technical way. Because they go, "Oh, you can't go from this chord to that chord. It's not the way you're supposed to do it."

MARIAH CAREY

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The music, yearning like a God in pain.

JOHN KEATS

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Music ... is the frozen tapioca in the ice sheet of History.

DONALD BARTHELME

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Words must ever sound so feeble in attempting to express the magic power of melody.

ARTHUR HELPS

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Everything is music for the born musician.

ROMAIN ROLLAND

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know,
And all of heaven we have here below.

JOSEPH ADDISON

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Music is a language lovers understand
Melody and romance wander hand in hand
Cupid never fails assisted by a band
So if you have something sweet to tell her
Say it with music

IRVING BERLIN

Tags: Irving Berlin

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Hark to the music! How beneath the strain
Of reckless revelry, vibrates and sobs
One fundamental chord of constant pain,
The pulse-beat of the poet's heart that throbs.

EMMA LAZARUS

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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

JOHN MILTON

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Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the latter it awakens the higher nature and works an effect, though but a transitory effect, of a beneficial kind. But the primary purpose of music is neither instruction nor culture but pleasure; and this is an all-sufficient purpose.

HERBERT SPENCER

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This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

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Music recalls a state of feeling, and not merely a series of incidents. When we listen to the long-forgotten melody, we do not review the scenes and actions of our childhood in succession, but we become for the moment children once again.

ARTHUR HELPS

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True life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin while you went out in the world and met the obligations required of you.

ANN PATCHETT

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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

PLATO

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When time itself shall be no more / And all things in confusion hurl'd / Music shall then exert it's power / And sound survive the ruins of the world / Then saints and angels shall agree / In one eternal jubilee / All Heaven shall echo with their hymns divine / And God himself with pleasure see / The whole creation in a chorus join.

JOSEPH ADDISON

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Music is organized sound, but the organization has to involve some element of the unexpected or it is emotionally flat and robotic. The appreciation we have for music is intimately related to our ability to learn the underlying structure of music we like--the equivalent to grammar in spoken or signed languages--and to be able to make predictions about what will come next. Composers imbue music with emotion by knowing what our expectations are and then very deliberately controlling when those expectations will be met, and when they won't. The thrills, chills, and tears we experience from music are the result of having our expectations artfully manipulated by a skilled composer and the musicians who interpret that music.

DANIEL J. LEVITIN

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Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

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The passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

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