Words And Music Quotes

The songs started as a soundscapes, and then came the words and music; each song took at least a year to make.

Words and music together create powerful, powerful things.

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.

I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.

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

Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be sub-divided rhythmically.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Double-check your voice mail message. Listen to your on-hold words and music. Write welcoming scripts for your telephone team. Pay attention to the music in your office and lobby areas. Make sure what your customers hear sounds good.

Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality.

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

Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Where words leave off, music begins.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

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.

Music gives a soul to the universe.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

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.

A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone.

My [singing] style really has no style, because I try to sing each number differently. I’ve always believed that if style takes precedent over the words and music, the audience get’s cheated. It’s like when people see a fine play or movie. They imagine themselves in the leading role. I want them to imagine that they’re singing - not just listening to someone else.

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

These are not necessarily our agendas, but we feel a part of what a performer is, and what a performer has to say is more than just words and music.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

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

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

Where words fail, music speaks.