Music Quotes

When your message resonates with the people, then you know your message is from God, and we are building this movement in the interest of all of God's people.

Themes are important to me, but the beats are what catches someone's ear and makes a record a hit, ... The music is more important than anything. You can have instrumental tracks and people will listen to it. But if you put a really good theme to a bad beat, no one will care about it.

You can just climb on top of me and ride me like this beat.

I really thought I could give it up... But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

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

Our music is the fifth Veda. The Vedas teach you brahma Vidya (translation: Sacred Knowledge). You cannot learn that from a machine. If you go on contemplating and meditating upon the divine art. I am sure you will reach the ultimate destination in your music which is Brahman I am trying to reach that.
Kishori Amonkar

Music without emotion is like an empty shell. Technique is, of course, essential, but the emphasis should be on bhava or emotional expression. For this, the vocalist has to make a deep and thought study of the nava-rasas. Classical musicians generally ignore this aspect and pay no attention to rasa-siddhant. That is why our shastriya sangeet fails to appeal to listeners who always prefer music which appeals to the heart, rather than the intellect.
Kishori Amonkar

If you think this was an isolated incident, let me paraphrase Pastor Martin Niemoller, "First they came for the music faculty and I did not speak out because I was not a musician. Then they came for the psychologists and I did not speak out because I was not a psychologist. Then they came for the biologists and I did not speak out because I was not a biologist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me."
Jon Howard Appleton

Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.

Most people still steal music.

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

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

The musical equivalent of the towers of St Pancras Station.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.
Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle

Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again -- S-E-R-F music.

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

Instrumentation is to music precisely what color is to painting.
Louis Hector Berlioz

She was one of those people who say "I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like."

People haven't always been there for me but music always has.







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