Quote by Robert Palmer

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to arch

Summary

This quote suggests that explaining or capturing the essence of something musical is exceedingly challenging, akin to attempting to dance to architecture. It emphasizes the inherent difficulty in using words to convey the intricacies and emotions of music, as the two forms of expression - music and language - are vastly different and have their own unique ways of communication.

Topics

By Robert Palmer

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

Albert Einstein

Quote Albert Einstein

I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too

I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only reward of virtue is virtue

The only reward of virtue is virtue

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions b

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to e

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like y

It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping... you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

Arthur Erickson

The relation between experimentalists and theorists is often

The relation between experimentalists and theorists is often one of healthy competition for truth and less healthy competition for fame.

Alvaro De Rujula

Truth Competition Fame

People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and y

People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.