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Favorite Quotes About Music
(Probably been done before, search engine stinks, blah blah blah)
Anyway, I was looking at some stuff about Kraftwerk and saw this. They were asked: - "Do you listen to other music?" To which one of them replied... - "No. Maybe when we wander round. Sometimes when we go out to dance. Sometimes radio. I don't have a stereo at home. We listen to silence. We listen to fictitious music in our heads. Think music." I thought about it for a minute and decided... that is completely awesome. I went to look for more music quotes, and came across another that just seemed perfectly fitting for MusicBanter users: “Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.” -Sergei Rachmaninov Write down your favorites if you like. |
"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song."
—Louis Armstrong |
The press quotes on the inside of my friend's vinyl copy of 'The Velvet Underground and Nico' are hilarious and awesome, and makes me wish I was at the Plastic Exploding Inevitable shows, because the critics sound bewildered, in love, frustrated and sort of scared at the same time. All of them together paint quite a picture of the critical reaction that the band had.
"A Three-ring psychosis that assaults the senses with the sights and sounds of the total environment syndrome ... Discordant music, throbbing cadences, pulsating tempo." --Variety "Not since the Titanic ran into that iceberg has there been such a collision as when Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable burst upon the audiences at The Trip Tuesday. For once a Happening really happened, and it took Warhol to come out from New York to show how it's done. " --Los Angeles Times This is the best one: "Warhol's brutal assemblage --non-stop horror show. He has indeed put together a total environment, but it is an assemblage that actually vibrates with menace, cynicism, and perversion. To experience it is to be brutalized, helpless. --you're in any kind of horror you want to imagine, from police state to mad house. Eventually the reverberations in your ears stop. But what do you do with what you still hear in your brain ? The flowers of evil are in full bloom with the Exploding Plastic Inevitable." --Michaela Williams, Chicago Daily News "Shatteringly contemporary --the electronic music, loud enough to make the room and the mind vibrate in unison --Nico, the beautiful flaxen-haired girl, the noise, the lights, the film and the dances build to a screeching crescendo." --San Francisco Chronicle "The Velvet Underground, a group whose howling, throbbing beat is amplified and extended by electronic dial-twiddling, has a sound hard to describe, even harder to duplicate, but haunting in its uniqueness. And with the Velvets come the blonde, bland, beautiful Nico, another cooler Dietrich for another cooler generation. Art has come to the discotheque and it will never be the same again." --John Wil****, East Village Other "The sound is a savage series of atonal thrusts and electronic feedback. The lyrics combine Sado-Masochistic frenzy with free-association imagery. The whole sound seems to be the product of a secret marriage between Bob Dylan and The Marquis de Sade." --Richard Goldstein, New York World Journal-Tribune This is a good one too: "The rock 'n roll music gets louder, the dancers get more frantic, and the lights start going on and off like crazy. And there are spotlights blinking in our eyes, and car horns beeping, and Gerard Malanga and the dancers are shaking like mad, and you don't think the noise can get any louder, and then it does, until there is one rhythmic tidal wave of sound, pressing down around you, just impure enough so you can still get the beat; the audience, all of it fused together into one magnificent moment of hysteria." --George English, Fire Island News |
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Also you bastard did I properly submit my newest essay in my editor's pick thread? I remember putting it in the text box but I don't remember if I hit post and I already exited out of the tab. Thanks in advance from an ingrate with no respect for modular authority because I am a rebel. |
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"Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't stand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro."
Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby |
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. (Robert G. Ingersoll)
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. (Paul Simon) Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. (Jean Paul Richter) Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent. (Victor Hugo) Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life. (Alanis Morissette) |
"The ticks turn into tocks, and the tocks turn into ticks" - Derek Bailey when asked "What happens to time-awareness during improvisation?".
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"People ask me, ‘what was the best year for the music?’ I always say, this year is the best year for music. Prior to that it was the previous year"
John Peel |
“All I ever wanted to do was make a record. Here's what you do: you pick up your guitar, you rip a few people's tunes off, you swap them round a bit, get your brother in the band, punch his head in every now and again, and it sells. I'm a lucky bastard. I'm probably the single most lucky man in the world - apart from our Liam."
Noel Gallagher |
"When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
-- Ludwig van Beethoven about art, but music is art. "Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs." --Pablo Picasso |
The first two lines, which rhymed 'kiddin' you' and 'didn't you,' just about knocked me out, and later on, when I got to the jugglers and the chrome horse, the diplomats, and the princess on the steeple, it all just about got to be too much.
Bob Dylan discussing the song "Like a Rolling Stone" in Rolling Stone magazine (1988) |
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent” - Victor Hugo
“Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.” - E. Y. Harburg “Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.” Ralph Waldo Emerson ..and the list goes on and on... |
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/is...0312278675.jpg I just found this quote about music in this book that's taking me forever to read, and it made me glad that I stuck with it. It's a little long-winded, so bare with me. It takes place between the protagonist/narrator and a jazz musician, who he meets through his endless wanderings around his city. Whenever he asks him his opinions about music, the saxophonist usually just smiles and dismisses it, until the time he demands an answer from him:
"Well," he said with equanimity, "you see, in my opinion, there is no point at all in talking about music. I never talk about music. What reply, then, was I to make to your very able and just remarks? You were perfectly right in all you said. But, you see, I am a musician, not a professor, and I don't believe that, as regards music, there is the least point in being right. Music does not depend on being right, on having good taste and education and all that." "Indeed. Then what does it depend on?" "On making music, Herr Haller, on making music as well and as much as possible and with all the intensity of which one is capable. That is the point, Monsieur. Though I carried the complete works of Bach and Haydn in my head and could say the cleverest things about them, not a soul would be the better for it. But when I take hold of my mouthpiece and play a lively shimmy, whether the shimmy be good or bad, it will give people pleasure. It gets into their legs and into their blood. That's the point and that alone. Look at the faces in a dance hall at the moment when the music strikes up after a longish pause, how the eyes sparkle, legs twitch and faces begin to laugh. That is why one makes music." I liked that. I knew I stuck to this book for a reason. |
Also about art in general rather than specifically music, but it's one of my favourites:
"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence." -Oscar Wilde |
"Whenas her lute is tunéd to her voice,
The air grows proud for honour of that sound, And rocks do leap to show how they rejoice That in the earth such music should be found." Giles Fletcher |
"Without music, life would be an error."
Friedrich Nietzsche. I could try and find something more articulate and fancy, this pretty much sums it up for me tho. |
"Don’t feel bad that you don’t have it, just download it. It looks kind of like an album because we had an artist make us this cool album cover because we were shopping it to record labels."
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'Once upon a time, there were 2 trees that grew next to each other. One was straight and the other was crooked. Every day the straight tree would look at his neighbor and say "you're crooked! You have always been crooked and you will continue to be crooked!"
Then one day the lumberjacks came into the forest, and the manager in charge said, "Cut down all the straight trees!" That crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong and growing strange.' --Tom Waits |
"The one and only thing that got me through all those times and many others I can't even list…is music and love. It sounds cheesy, but when you're that down, it's amazing how the small things in life you take for granted become so much more important"--Alex Band
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These are a few quotes from my students that have come and gone, may they rest in enternal peace and music.
In heaven there will be angels to play the music of the Lord. On Earth, we have musicians. And it sings to me like the voice of the Lord himself. Any who can make music, is holy. Adam O'Neil, Graduated: 2000, Passed Away: 9/11/2001 Music is NOT comprised of only notes and rythemes and dynamic markings and time signatures and key marks. Music is comprised of all that, and Hu, the human elemant. When somebody puts their heart and soul into and through their instrument and into the air, music touches the heart of all who hear it. What're you hearing? Sarah Tucker, Graduated: 2000, Passed away: 2008 Ha! You think you're a trumpet player?! Just because you play the notes doesn't mean you play the music. Brandon Mills, Graduated: 2007, Passed away: 2007 My cello is like another limb to me. The music flows through me into the bow, into my cello and out into the world. Music is like my crack. I just can't get enough of it. Kevin Kiley, Graduated: 1998, Passed Away: 9/11/2001 In a novel, you have to have a climax to make it interesting. Sometimes in music, the lack of a climax is the climax and makes it all the more interesting. Shannon Grant, Graduated: 1997, Passed away: 2009 But this one is my absolute favorite: When you play, your music will always give away your heart, when words cannot. Ron Rinders, Graduated: 1999, Passed away: 2001 |
This is a conversation between a friend and I as we were waiting in a music store:
(Friend walks over to cassette tapes) "So why do they even have these things?" Me: "What?" Friend: "Why do they have these things in the music store? I don't even know what these things are!" Me: "Umm...they're cassette tapes, bro." Friend: "What?! They still have these?!" I LOL-ED. "Music is a safe kind of high"- Jimi Hendrix “Without music, life would be an error.”- Friedrich Nietzsche |
"Music Is a Language"
"There is more to music than just playing the right notes" "So there are 7 right notes and only 5 'so called' wrong notes, which means even if I guess I'm gonna be right more than half the time" I have to give Victor Wooten credit his latest DVD was rather insightful. In fact screw it, here's the man himself If your a musician of any sort it's seriously worth a buy and it applies to all musicians not just bassists. |
"Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating."
John Cage |
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. ~ Elvis Presley
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. ~ Charlie Parker |
"When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air, you can never capture it again." - Eric Dolphy
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Favorite musician quotes of all time
Here a few of my favorites:
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix "Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.” - Elvis Presley "I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head." - Kurt Cobain |
you lie to your friends ill lie to mine. lets not lie to each other.
-guided by voices hey mr soundman |
" I talk to musicians, and they go, Oh this is Hell. You never put tar paper on a roof did ya?" Chris Isaak.
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"Who's that motherf**ker? He can't play sh*t!"
- Miles Davis on Cecil Taylor "If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow." - Miles Davis during an interview, after growing aggravated about questions on the subject of race. "Why'd you put that white bitch on there?" - Miles Davis to George Avakian after seeing the cover chosen by Columbia for 'Miles Ahead'. "You a motherf**ker." - Miles Davis complimenting Chick Corea, who thought he was about to be fired. "Try taking the f**king horn out of your mouth." - Miles Davis, after questioning the increasing length of John Coltrane solos, and Trane answered, "I don't know how to stop." |
"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."
— Bob Marley |
My favourites are quotes that, even years later, preserve a touch of sly humour, like some of these :
Elvis Presley : I don`t know anything about music. In my line of business you don`t have to. Jim Morrison : Actually, I don`t remember being born. It must`ve happened during one of my blackouts. Syd Barrett : I`m really quite together. I`m even beginning to think that I ought to be. Jerry Garcia : Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. Frank Zappa : Those kids wouldn`t know music if it came up and bit `em on the ass. |
When Jekyll hides : "I used to be schizo....Now we're ok"
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to a question on how much money they make:-
Dave Lee Roth - "you know, after all the deductions for the promoters, the record label and tax, there's usually enough for all of us to........ buy a South Pacific Island each" |
I've always liked the Paul Simon quote, "Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you you, following you right up until you die."
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My guitar teacher about why he thinks music theory is stupid:
"Once you know what the box is, it's harder to think outside it." |
I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
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