MUSIC - PART -1
MUSIC - PART - 1
“Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are of serious concern, whatever things are righteous, whatever things are chaste, whatever things are lovable, whatever things are well spoken-of, whatever things are virtuous, whatever things are praiseworthy, continue considering these things.” – Apostle Paul – Phil. 4:8 – The BIBLE
When words fail, music speaks – Hans Christian Anderson
Imagine having Einstein talk to you, or Gandhi. In a concert, Mozart or Bach is talking to you, through time and space—you’re listening to the crystallizing of great minds. – Yo Yo Ma
I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called ‘Mother and Child Reunion.’ It’s chicken and eggs. And I said, “I gotta use that one.” – Paul Simon
We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. – Decca Recording Company in rejecting a recording contact with the Beatles.
Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that I could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family. – Eric Clapton
I may quit the music business someday, but never the music. – Dan Fogelberg
I’m extremely concerned Miley Cyrus thinks it’s cool, naked and licking sledgehammers in her videos. You will obscure your talent by allowing yourself to be pimped, whether it’s the music business or yourself doing the pimping. – Sinead O’Connor (her website)
Do what you love and you will find a way to get it out to the world. – Judy Collins
Success is always temporary. When it’s all said and done, the only thing you have left is your character. – Vince Gill
On stage I make love to 25,000 different people; then I go home alone. – Janis Joplin
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.– Bob Dylan
The function of art is to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and as if by magic, we see new meaning in it. – Anais Nin
“If you want to reach me, then leave me alone.” – Sheryl Crow – A Change Will Do You Good
I’m a musician—before I’m a woman, no question. – Tori Amos
If music is the food of love, play on. – William Shakespeare
Always be the first rate version of yourself, instead of the second-rate version of somebody else. – Judy Garland
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“His brother’s name was Jubal. He was the founder of all those who play the harp and the pipe.” – Moses – Gen 4:21 – The BIBLE
You ain’t goin’ nowhere son. You oughta go on back to drivin’ a truck in Memphis. – Jim Denny of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville to Elvis Presley in 1954 after his audition.
All anyone needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one. – Henry Mitchell
I think we ought to make AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL the national anthem. It’s not about war, there’s no bombs bursting in air, no rocket’s red glare. It’s about the land, amber waves of grain. That sounds good to me. Plus, it’s a hell of a lot easier to sing. – Willie Nelson
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however distant or far away. – Henry David Thoreau
Without music, life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche
“No matter how close to yours another’s steps have grown, in the end there’s the dance you will do alone.” – Jackson Browne – THE DANCE
It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called the blues, used to be called rhythm and blues…It’s called rock now. – Chuck Berry
If you look deep enough, you will see music, the heart of nature being everywhere. – Thomas Carlyle
Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life. – Yo-Yo- Ma
Music expresses that which cannot be said and of which it is impossible to be silent. – Victor Hugo
Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one—Helen Keller is the other. – Erma Bombeck
“And there was a God in heaven / and the world made perfect sense / we were young and were in love / and were easy to convince / we were headed straight for Eden, / it was just around the bend / And I thought I had forgotten all about it, / And the song remembers when.” – Trisha Yearwood – THE SONG REMEMBERS WHEN – Hugh Prestwood
Those who dance are considered insane by those that cannot hear the music. – George Carlin
The first time I sang in the church choir, 200 people changed their religion. – Fred Allen
As long as they look good, they can interior decorate their music. They don’t have to play anything, just build an illusion that they are creative. – Joni Mitchell on modern music
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“And he says: “I will declare your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation, I will praise you with song.” – Apostle Paul – Heb. 2:12 – The BIBLE
Most rock journalism is by people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read. – Frank Zappa
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl back into my loneliness. – Maya Angelou
Art is never finished; just abandoned. – Leonardo da Vinci
I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock and roll. – Little Richard
A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children. – Ian Anderson YES - (lead singer)
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, experience and love. I was not even into the music of boys. From my youngest yeas, I was into the music of men. – Eric Clapton
What we play is life. – Louis Armstrong
All of my life I have had a chance of hate and love. I chose love and I am here. – A. R. Rahman, accepting his Academy Award for the music of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Song is the heroics of speech. – Thomas Carlyle
The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? – David Sarnoff’s associates on radio future in 1920.
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. – Pat Conroy
Is anybody at Time Warner embarrassed by these by these lyrics? Will the executives at Time Warner stand up and say these things in public? We’re not talking about censorship—we’re talking about citizenship. – (Referring to Ice T’s rap record COP KILLER) – William Bennett – Former Secretary of Education. – 1995
MY version of “GEORGIA” became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man it really touched me. Here’s a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching. – Ray Charles
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by people who never listen to music anyway. – Bob Dylan
How times have changed! A few generations ago songs were about love and romance. Songs are now largely about sex and violence. And we wonder why modern relationships suffer? – Gary Pulliam
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“The next day a bad spirit from God gripped Saul, and he started to act strangely inside the house, while David was playing music on the harp.” – Probably the prophet Samuel – 1 Sam. 18:10 – The BIBLE
Music can change the world because music can change people. – Bono (U2)
Country music is three cords and the truth. – Harland Howard
I think my fans will follow me into combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long, time. – Bonnie Raitt
Without Elvis, none of us would have made it. – Buddy Holly
The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It’s not based on beauty, it’s based on hype and it’s based on cocaine. It’s based on giving presents of large packages of dollars to play records on the air. – Frank Zappa
Jazz came to America 300 years ago in chains. – Paul Whiteman
Music when healthy is a teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, is a teacher of perfect disorder. – John Ruskin
When you hear my records today, you hear a vanilla-sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard. – Pat Boone
If you can’t teach me to fly, teach me to sing. – J. M. Barrie – PETER PAN
Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is a flat-out truth—I find the religiosity and the philosophy in the music. I don’t find anything else. – Bob Dylan
The music is not the notes, but the silence between. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Red (Morgan Freeman’s narration): “I have no idea what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things are best said left unsaid. I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can’t be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and further than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapping into a drab little cage that made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank was free.” – THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION – Frank Darabont
The problem with alternative radio is that it has no fiber at all, and it is giving itself its own enema. – Mike Halloran (KUPR P.D.)
It’s a marvelous feeling when someone says, ‘I want to do that song of yours because they’ve connected to it.’ That’s what I’m after. – Mary Chapin Carpenter
He took my music, but he gave me my name. – Muddy Waters (on Mick Jagger)
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“Speak to one another with psalms, praising to God, and spiritual songs, singing and accompanying yourselves with music in your hearts to Jehovah.” – Apostle Paul – Eph. 5:19– The BIBLE
Music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. – Plato
I would advise you to keep your overhead down, avoid a major drug habit, play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it and you need to them to hear it. – James Taylor
Wizard (Robin Williams): “You know what music is? God’s little reminder that there’s something else besides us in this universe, a harmonic connection between all living beings, everywhere, even in the stars.” – AUGUST RUSH – Nick Castle / James V. Hart (Screenplay) – 2007
Rock and roll is poison put to sound. – Pablo Casals
I’M SORRY was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings. – Brenda Lee
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. – Albert Einstein
I don’t like Los Angelas. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everyone wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need. – Lady Gaga
Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear. – Ludwig van Beethoven
The most exciting rhymes seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies, simple and inevitable. – W. H. Auden
What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between dies what he wants to do. – Bob Dylan
What I liked about singing was that, for me, it’s a substitute for the psychiatrist’s couch. – Patti Page
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. – Bob Marley
I think music itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It is something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music. – Billy Joel
I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but, after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed. – Dolly Parton
All the good music has been written by people with wigs and stuff. – Frank Zappa
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Music is as old as history itself. From the oldest written records to the most isolated primitive peoples on earth, music has always been an expression of joy and pleasure. Perhaps the “idea” of rhythm and song came from nature itself. Birds, frogs, insects, animals, or even the wind rustling through the leaves, can evoke a peaceful calm feeling within the human condition. – Gary Pulliam
True music must repeat the thoughts and inspirations of the people and the times. My people are Americans and my time is today. – George Gershwin
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. – Jerry M. Wright
Action is the antidote to despair. – Joan Baez
Szpilman (Adrien Brody): “I want to help. I want to do something.” Yehuda (Paul Bradley): “You’re too well-known, Wladek. And you know what? You musicians don’t make good conspirators. You’re too…too…musical!” – THE PIANIST – Ronald Harwood (Screenplay) – 2002
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you’re allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it’s considered your style. – Fred Astaire
If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it. – Louis Armstrong
Music expresses a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. – Confucius
The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doing now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them. – Elvis Presley
Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician. – Kurt Vonnegut
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as Amercian music lately? – Billy Joel
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there. – Miles Davis
There’s so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether in reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She’s been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there. – Taylor Swift
When I sing, people shut up. – Barbra Streisand
I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with emotion. – Elmer Bernstein (Film composer)
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Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) reflecting on a Mozart score: “The beginning, simple, almost comic. Bassoons and basset horns, like a rusty squeezebox. And then suddenly, high above it, an oboe. A single note, hanging there, unwavering. Until a clarinet took over and sweetened it into a phrase of such delight! This was no composition from a performing monkey! This was music I’d never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfillable longing, it had me trembling. It seemed to me that I was hearing the voice of God!” – AMADEUS – Peter Shaffer – 1984
My goal as a writer is more to comfort than disturb – Joni Mitchell
It’s not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It’s what you leave behind when you go. – Randy Travis
I chose such notes that would love one another. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely? – Judy Garland
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them. – Luciano Pavarotti
My songs are like my kids. – Billy Joel
Basically, you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be. – Bob Dylan
I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning. – Yo Yo Ma
Talent is only the starting point. – Irving Berlin
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. – Elton John
I didn’t know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child. – Loretta Lynn
In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters the desert to rescue a lost man, (David) Lean listened to the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely. – Maurice Jarre (film composer)
Sometimes the best light comes from a burning bridge. – Don Henley
“Good authors, too, who once knew better words, now only use four-letter words writing prose…Anything goes.” – ANYTHING GOES - Cole Porter
The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived the words in country music. – Brenda Lee
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What is music? How do you define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in Summer. Music is the far-off peal of bells at dusk! Music comes straight from the heart; it is love! Music is the Sister of Poetry and her Mother is Sorrow. – Pyotr Tchaikovsky
You ain’t seen nothing yet! – Al Jolson
Don’t believe everything you hear: Real eyes, realize, real lies. – Tupac Shakur
I didn’t choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped. – Marty Robbins
“Woooo-weee! Boy, that was some mighty fine a-pickin’ and a singin’! I’ll tell you what, you come on in here and sign them papers and I’m-a gonna give you ten dollars a piece.” – Blind record producer, Lund (Stephen Root) to the Soggy Bottom Boys. – O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? – Ethan & Joel Coen – 2000
I think one of the reasons I’m popular is because I’m wearing a tie. You have to be different. – Tony Bennett
I don’t make music for eyes, I make music for ears. – Adele
I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers. It keeps me young and reminds me of where I come from. Teaching young artists is like giving water to a flower. – Isaac Stern
I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend. – Elvis Presley
I felt obligated to change music art, the same way that Galileo proved the earth was round to the world, and that the Sun did not stand still. – Phil Spector (Record producer)
By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don’t want the rhythm to hog the spotlight. – Glenn Miller
It’s the special province of music to move the heart. – Johann Sebastian Bach
I used my mother’s radio as a P. A. system. I’d take the telephone, the speaking part, and take the two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker. – Les Paul
It’s easy to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put emphasis on the right syllable. – Don Henley
When I was 12 and started taking singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I wouldprobably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice. – Johnny Mathis
Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself. – Itshak Perlman
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Music has morphed into endless variety through the centuries. It may be present in the form of classical, opera, folk, marches, popular, rhythm and blues, jazz, swing, country and western, new age, soul, rock and roll, hip-hop and even rap, to name a few. – Gary Pulliam
You lose a lot of time, hating people. – Marian Anderson(the first black opera star)
“What’d you git me a guitar for?” – Loretta (Sissy Spacek) “Cause I like the way you sing!” – Doo (Tommy Lee Jones) Jones) – COAL MINER’S DAUGHTER – Thomas Rickman (Screenplay) – 1980
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning. – B. B. King
I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless in my ambition. – Lady Gaga
God bless the potholes on Memory Lane. – Randy Newman
Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great. – Cher
I don’t relate to what’s left of the music business. There doesn’t seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way – there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums. – Don McLean
Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of a soul’s moods. – Pyotr Tchaikovsky
The great songs just come out. If it comes good, just leave it that way. – Marty Robbins
The toughest thing about being a success is that you have to keep on being a success. – Irving Berlin
I recorded a song called I FALL TO PIECES and I was in a car wreck. Now I’m worried because I have a brand-new record, and it’s called CRAZY. – Patsy Cline
Love songs are the greatest essences of life, the only thing that’s lasting. – George Benson
I don’t believe a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it’s the result of years of living, of studying, reading, his very personality and his temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together, and the artist ‘expresses’ himself. – Richard Rodgers
Do it again in the next verse, and people will think you meant it. – Chet Atkins
It cost a lot of money to look this cheap. – Dolly Parton
I want to give the audience the whole package, and for me, the whole package is to give them something fresh as well. It’s not as much fun resting on your laurels. – Al Jarreau
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Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks): “In the land of China, people got hardly nothing at all.” John Lennon – “No Possessions?” Forrest Gump: “And in China they never go to church.” John Lennon: “No religion, too?” Dick Cavett: “Ah, hard to imagine.” John Lennon: “Well, it’s easy if you try, Dick.” – FORREST GUMP – Eric Roth (Screenplay) – 1994
Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphysical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable. – Leonard Bernstein
I see music as fluid architecture. – Joni Mitchell
My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit, is to blow that horn. – Louis Armstrong
“Once upon a time / The world was sweeter than we knew / Everything was ours / How happy we were then / But once upon a time / Never comes again.” – Johnny Mercer - ONCE UPON A TIME - Charles Strouse / Lee Adams
Creativity grows out of two things; curiosity and imagination. – Benny Goodman
Music has power! The effect and influence on people is both astounding and remarkable. It can soothe, enliven, refresh, frustrate, relax, anger, depress, stimulate, inspire and overwhelm us. – Gary Pulliam
Conceit is thinking you’re great; egotism is knowing it. – Bobby Darin
I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media. – Brenda Lee
Music is the space between the notes. – Claude Debussy
There’s a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It’s a form of snobbism. The same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of awards than comedy. – Gene Kelly
When you sing, always tell the truth. – Billie Holiday
Musicians want to be the loud voice of so many quiet hearts. – Billy Joel
Years from now, after I’ve gone, someone will listen to what I’ve done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they’ll hear my guitars speaking for me. – Chet Atkins
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. – Lawrence Durrell
It may be that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it is from shyness, fear, lack of right words, or the passion or dramatic gift to express them. More souls have rallied to the causes by the strains of music than by straining rhetoric. – Richard Rodgers
