3 December 2020 Satyajit Ray At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
3 December 2020 Fiona Apple Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
3 December 2020 Peter Tosh I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It’s a large, very large garden, seen?
3 December 2020 W. H. Auden A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales – when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there’s something different about it. And I miss the simple life.
3 December 2020 Andres Segovia Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Kozol But for the children of the poorest people we’re stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We’re not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.
3 December 2020 Carlos Santana My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
3 December 2020 Brian Eno For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
3 December 2020 Denis Diderot When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
3 December 2020 James Hetfield If I hadn’t of had music in my life, it’s quite possible I’d be dead and I’d much rather be alive.
3 December 2020 Billie Joe Armstrong I don’t want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we’d neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.
3 December 2020 Brian Eno We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.
3 December 2020 Brian Eno At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
3 December 2020 Ezra Pound Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance… poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
3 December 2020 Jean Cocteau All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
3 December 2020 Soren Kierkegaard What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
3 December 2020 Julie Andrews As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.
3 December 2020 Keith Richards If you don’t know the blues… there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
3 December 2020 Charles Ives But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
3 December 2020 Jim Davis There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
3 December 2020 Richard Branson The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.
