Music Theory Quotes
Collection of top 24 famous quotes about Music Theory
Music Theory Quotes & Sayings
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We knock upon silence for an answering music.
— Archibald MacLeish
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
— Quincy Jones
I've come up with the theory that the music is within. We don't bring it in; it's already there. We have to figure out how to get it out.
— Howard Roberts
I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.
— Blake Judd
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
— Harrison Birtwistle
I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabilities; I was completely by ear.
— Madi Diaz
You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.
— Lemony Snicket
I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.
— Brian May
In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation ... as music.
— Roy H. Williams
When I hear Governor Mitt Romney in his speech talk about how the Republican Party must stand for legitimate conservative values. They don't.
— Rush Limbaugh
Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
— Derek Bailey
Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory.
— Dick Dale
The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
— George Bernard Shaw
My focus is on my constituents.
— Randy Hultgren
I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.
— Eric Whitacre
When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.
— Moby
When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
— Harrison Birtwistle
How the hell did you do that? Are you on steroids?
— Meg Knight
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.
— Neil Diamond
My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.
— Asa Butterfield