Browsing Quotes With Tag: music (25)
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Here again, heavy metal was an aqueduct for vicarious, harmless evil. Even as an adolescent, I understood that the kind of kid who thought Bruce Dickinson was telling him to worship Satan was the same kind of kid who would have been corrupted by the hum of a refrigerator.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Fargo Rock CityPosted: 08 Nov 2009 at 8:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Commercial success does not legitimize musical consequence, but it does legitimize cultural consequence.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Fargo Rock CityPosted: 08 Nov 2009 at 8:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“I’m forty one years old,” says David, “and I have spent half my life regretting that I missed the Sixties. I read about the energy, and I imagine what the music would’ve sounded like when you hadn’t heard it a thousand times before, and when it actually meant something, and I’ve always been sad that the world is different now.”
Speaker: Nick HornbySource: How to Be GoodPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We must play from the soul, not like trained birds.
Speaker: C.P.E. BachPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting can never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn’t have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.
Speaker: Marsha NormanPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
Speaker: Dan RatherPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
Speaker: John CagePosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
Speaker: Virgil ThompsonPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I can’t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
Speaker: Woody AllenPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
Speaker: Bill NyePosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes — ah, that is where the art resides.
Speaker: Artur SchnabelPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had… his photocopier…
Source: BBC Radio 4, "I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue"Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 4:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A hymn is a prayer, and prayers get answered.
Speaker: President HansonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are more sermons in the hymn book than anywhere else.
Speaker: President HansonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:31 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of other people have read those books before. And listened to those songs.
I wonder how they feel tonight.
…I guess what I’m saying is that this all feels very familiar. But it’s not mine to be familiar about. I just know that another kid has felt this. This one time when it’s peaceful outside, and you’re seeing things move, and you don’t want to, and everyone is asleep. And all the books you’ve read have been read by other people. And all the songs you’ve loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that’s pretty to you is pretty to other people. And you know that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing “unity.”
It’s like when you are excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to always feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means that you’re happy too.Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I had an amazing feeling when I finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in the palm of my hand, there was this one tape that had all of these memories and feelings and great joy and sadness. Right there in the palm of my hand. And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope that they feel it’s enough. I really do because they’ve made me happy. And I’m only one person.
Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“I feel infinite.”
And Sam and Patrick looked at me like I said the greatest thing they ever heard. Because the song was that great and because we all really paid attention to it. Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent, and we felt young in a good way. I have since bought the record, and I would tell you what it was, but truthfully, it’s not the same unless you’re driving to your first real party, and you’re sitting in the middle seat of a pickup with two nice people when it starts to rain.Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If I ever have another relationship, I’ll buy her, whoever she is, stuff that she ought to like but doesn’t know about; that’s what new boyfriends are for.…If I can’t buy specially priced compilation albums for new girlfriends, then I might as well give up, because I’m not sure that I know how to do anything else.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:18 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel) at the center of your being, then you can’t afford to sort out your love life, start to think of it as the finished product. You’ve got to pick at it, keep it alive and in turmoil, you’ve got to pick at it and unravel it until it all comes apart and you’re compelled to start all over again. Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as a consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:17 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Is it so wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It’s not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique thimbles. There’s a whole world in here, a nicer, dirtier, more violent, more peaceful, more colorful, sleazier, more dangerous, more loving world than the world I live in; there is a history, and geography, and poetry, and countless other things I should have studied at school, including music.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!