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  • 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   Agendas   Feels  
  • You are the music while the music lasts.

    Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 5 (1941)
  • Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

    Music   Wisdom   Heaven  
    'A Song for St Cecilia's Day'
  • 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.

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

    Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.154, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Running   Ideas   Mind  
  • 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.

    Song   Pain   Soul  
    Clay Aiken, Allison Glock (2004). “Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life”, p.23, Random House
  • Where words fail, music speaks.

    Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”
  • If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

    Music   Art   Reality  
    Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)
  • Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

    "Bird: the legend of Charlie Parker". Book by Robert George Reisner, p. 27, 1977.
  • 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.

    Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com
  • Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

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

    Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.rollingstone.com. November 06, 1986.
  • Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

    Jane Hirshfield (2015). “Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World”, p.8, Knopf
  • 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.

    Needs   Stones   Way  
  • No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

    Music   Healing   Matter  
    Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.rollingstone.com. November 06, 1986.
  • Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  • Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

    Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.13, Courier Corporation
  • 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.

    Husband   Humble   Men  
    "The Murder of John Lennon", edition.cnn.com. 2006.
  • Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

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

    Music   Art   Men  
    Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)
  • Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

    Music   Piano   Feelings  
    Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”
  • 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.

    FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Aug 19, 2013
  • Words and music together create powerful, powerful things.

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

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

    Music   Names   Tunes  
  • 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.

    Music   Mean   Love Is  
    Harry Allen Overstreet (1927). “About ourselves: psychology for normal people”
  • After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

    Music at Night (1931) p. 17
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