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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
Henry Giles
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.
Artur Schnabel
It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.
Adam Lambert
My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.
Danica McKellar
Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.
Alanis Morissette
Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.
Levon Helm
And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.
Bruce Springsteen
I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.
Robert Plant
I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
David Bowie
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
John Philip Sousa
There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.
John Keats
Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.
Tori Amos
Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.
Layne Staley
Emerson said that music helps people to find the greatness in their souls. The same can be said about any form of art.
Leo Tolstoy
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Brother Preptil, the master of the music, had described Brutha's voice as putting him in mind of a disappointed vulture arriving too late at the dead donkey.
Terry Pratchett
For in music there is no material to be deducted.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
David Byrne
You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.
Bob Dylan
People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.