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I've always got songs ready to go. It's not a challenge to conjure anything, it's just whether the music I supply is desirable.
— Nicholas Thorburn
We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars glued together with magic and music and words. — Anita Krishan
If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.
— John Dewey
It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.
— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
...And you're the only one who knows.
— Billy Joel
After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music?
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.
— Lyle Lovett
He slid his saxophone under the bed before we got naked on it, and I think it made the whole thing better. I really do.
— Charlie Close
Listening to music, I realised, was simply the pleasure of counting without realising you were counting.
— Matt Haig
And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.
— Pete Seeger
Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I am telling you what I know - words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
— E.L. Doctorow
Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.
— Satyajit Ray
A good read is like dancing a tango with the author. You feel the music, give yourself over, move in unison to the music of words. ~ Mark Rubinstein
— Mark Rubinstein
You ought to enjoy the rhythm of the sacred ride.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
I'm stuck in between a nightmare and lost dreams
— 5 Seconds Of Summer
I don't write music for sissy ears.
— Charles Ives
This world is not conclusion.A species stands beyond -
Invisible, as Music -
But positive as Sound — Emily Dickinson
The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear.
— Amy Clampitt
Books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality.
— Joe Queenan
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
— Maya Angelou
Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.
— Vance Packard
Love #music. It will #love you back.
— Joss Stone
Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.
— John Shelton Reed
We're all weird.
— John O'Callaghan
When we stopped in front of it and turned off the engine, we heard music coming from inside - jazz. It sounded sophisticated and lonely. We
— Denis Johnson
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
In the silence, the bear died. It was a cute death, with funny music.
— Orson Scott Card
Music is my life. It is sacred.
— Jimmy Chamberlin
Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today.
— Jim Lee
My music is L-O-V-E because it's a gift, and you only give something when you feel it deeply.
— Klaus Nomi
My drawings are another kind of music for me ... they relax me and I think they all connect somehow.
— Shelby Lynne
There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.
— Stephen Fry
Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.
— David Byrne
Pop music I have always loved best.
— John Lydon
You gotta 'be' country music - you can't just sing it.
— Scotty McCreery
When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means.
— Carla H. Krueger
I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more.
— Florence Welch
Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.
— Avery Brundage
It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.
— Gustavo Dudamel
You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about.
— Abigail Washburn
I wonder about the trees.Why do we wish to bear
Forever the noise of these
More than another noise
So close to our dwelling place? — Robert Frost
One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times for a celebration.
— Francis Picabia
You know, speaking from experience, I can tell you that there's no aphrodisiac more potent than Watergate-themed cabaret music.
— Martin Short
There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.
— Tom Petty
No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words.
— Philip Pullman
Then she took up the bow and began to play. The tone was warm and deep, storied with layers of age.
— A.S. Peterson
It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.
— Dinah Sheridan
Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her.
— Jenim Dibie
I took your name when I took those vowsI meant 'em back then and I mean 'em right now. — The Band Perry
Just because I grew up a white guy in America doesn't mean that's the music of my life.
— Ezra Koenig
100% Reason to remember the name.
— Fort Minor
You never know how much you need music until you don't have it. I missed it so much my heart hurt.
— Damien Echols
The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.
— Jan Hammer
My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.
— Sergei Prokofiev
I failed music when I was a teenager.
— Buzz Aldrin
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
— Heinrich Heine
Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive
— Chuck Berry
Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list.
— Robbie Robertson
Music gave me something to do in my life.
— Izzy Stradlin
Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm.
— Gottfried Keller
The good times are killing me
— Modest Mouse
The music is in minors.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.
— Adam Schlesinger
There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.
— Don Cornelius
Jazz is the music of unemployment.
— Frank Zappa
I was rescued from being a greaser by music.
— Steve Kimock