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  • It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

  • You are the music while the music lasts.

    Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 5 (1941)
  • It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

    Music   Keys   Play  
  • When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.

    Rocks   Guitar   Years  
  • I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style.

    People   Style   Musician  
    Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2006.
  • I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.

    School   Theory   Halfway  
    "Don't Call It a Rip-Off". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.
  • Rock stars are idiots. You know that! Remember this moron never went to music school, never learned music theory and can't read or write music. So why not be suspicious of everything this idiot says?

    Stars   School   Writing  
    Source: www.noise11.com
  • Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

    Music   Knowledge   World  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

    Zero   Needs   Theory  
  • I always wanted to be a musician, 100 percent, my whole life. I went to school, I did music theory, I did voice training and piano lessons, and while I was a decent musician, it didn't seem like enough for me. I felt like I wanted to make more than just music.

    School   Voice   Piano  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.

    School   Voice   Taught  
    Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.
  • Do everything you can to learn your craft. Score student films for free, attend conferences, learn music theory - do anything and everything you can.

    "A Conversation With Prolific Music Composer & Producer John Keltonic". Interview with Norm Goldman, www.bookpleasures.com. July 21, 2015.
  • Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing.

    Music   Thinking   Sound  
  • Music can change the world.

    Music   Peace   World  
  • There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

    Love   Music   Marriage  
  • I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

    School   Piano   Class  
    "Touched with fire" by Angela Lambert, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2002.
  • It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

    Class   Play   Peers  
    The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org.
  • My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.

    Music   Art   Air  
    Quoted in Robert J. Buckley, Sir Edward Elgar (1905)
  • There are tools that help sharpen freestyle skills like having a diverse vernacular, some sense of music theory, being outspoken, phrasing, spacing, cross word puzzles, thesauruses, the ability to expand on an issue and embellish that with more descriptive terminology.

    Skills   Issues   Tools  
  • I'm maybe too rude with myself but the fact is that I don't know music theory so I can't tell myself "it's ok now I make good stuff," I need to improve more and more.

    Rude   Needs   Stuff  
    Source: sleepingbagstudios.ca
  • The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

    Funny   Music   Joy  
  • When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

    Rocks   Band   Punk  
    "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.
  • Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

    Music   Men   Order  
    Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria
  • The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

    Music   Beauty   Art  
  • Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

  • Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

  • I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.

    Unique   Player   Guitar  
  • I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

    Thinking   Jazz   Hart  
  • Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key shifts in music theory and practice.... [Sampladelia is] the sound made by those early-twentieth-century discoveries in particle physics and relativiity theory, the projection of the minds of Einstein, Heisenbery, and Bohr, their fateful explorations of liquid time, curving space, uncertainty fields and relativity theorems, into densely configured and fully ambivalent android music tracks

  • Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

    Music   Piano   Different  
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