Musical Life Quotes

Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.

Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

I think one's musical life should be free and open to new experience in order to keep expanding your mind and horizons.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

My driving career is low, but musically, it's all pretty high. It's a test of patience, takes forever, but I guess that's the nature of the thing of life. I'm glad to be living the musical life.

Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

The high note is not the only thing.

My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Fred Sturm has proven to be a great asset to the musical world as a teacher, composer and author. His gifts have enriched the musical life of all the people who have been fortunate enough to share his wisdom and musicality.

Maybe in my personal life, but as far as my career, I've been offered some humongous things in my career and didn't take them. I look back and think, oh man, well I'd have been well off monetarily wise, but artistic wise I don't know. I'd have to say, personally, in my personal life, yeah, but in my musical life, on twenty-twenty hindsight I would say just take the good with the bad.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

I was born with music inside me

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

There's the usual suspects in there, Green Day and The Clash and The Smiths, yeah, but there's also Ella and Frank, even Dino, some Curtis Mayfield and Minor Threat and Dusty Springfield and Belle & Sebastian, and as I flip through his musical life, getting to know his tastes, I must acknowledge that not only am I not frigid, but I also may be multi-orgasmic.

Music, to me, was - is - representative of everything I like most in life. It's beautiful and fun, but very rigorous. If you wanted to be good you had to work like crazy. It was a real relationship between effort and reward. My musical life experiences were just as important to me, in terms of forming my development, as my political experiences or my academic life.