Music Quotes for your Inspiration

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Welcome to GTiD's music quotes! These quotes are taken from our BLOG, where one is published -almost- daily, for your inspiration (as of 04.05.09). So you can expect this section to grow pretty quickly!

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Disclaimer: These quotes are not intended to represent my own points of view. I've chosen them because each is profoundly revealing in two ways:

So, I hope you enjoy this kaleidoscope of ideas as much as I have enjoyed putting it together it for you!!!

quote of the day. 05.04.09

"Without music, life would be a mistake"
-Miles Davis

quote of the day. 05.05.09

"As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few.
The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.
The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble."
-R.W. Emerson

OK, he wasn't a musician (he was a poet, among other things)- but very to the point ;)

quote of the day. 05.06.09

" In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of."
-Robert Schumann

quote of the day. 05.07.09

"The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing..."
-James Brown

quote of the day. 05.08.09

"The pause is as important as the note."
-Truman R. Fisher (composer)

quote of the day. 05.09.09

"If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterwards."
- Joe Pass

quote of the day. 05.10.09

"Music is the art of thinking with sounds."
-Jules Combarieu (writer)

quote of the day. 05.11.09

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art..."
-Charlie Parker

quote of the day. 05.12.09

"I like any and all of my associations with music -writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky."
-Duke Ellington

quote of the day. 05.13.09

"In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music."
-Dmitri Shostakovich

quote of the day. 05.14.09

"It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied."
-W.A. Mozart

quote of the day. 05.15.09

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and on which it is impossible to remain silent."
-Victor Hugo

quote of the day. 05.16.09

"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have."
-Edgar Watson Howe, writer

quote of the day. 05.17.09

"Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music."
-Marcel Marceau, mime

quote of the day. 05.18.09

"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music..."
-Sergei Rachmaninov

quote of the day. 05.19.09

"We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NEWTOPIA.
Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of NEWTOPIA.
NEWTOPIA has no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people.
NEWTOPIA has no laws other than cosmic. All people of NEWTOPIA are ambassadors of the country.
As two ambassadors of NEWTOPIA, we ask for diplomatic immunity and recognition in the United Nations of our country and our people."
-John Lennon/Yoko Ono

quote of the day. 05.20.09

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
-Gustav Mahler

quote of the day. 05.21.09

"When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely"
-Florent Schmitt (French composer, 1870-1958)

quote of the day. 05.22.09

"My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity."
-Eric Clapton

music quote of the day. 05.23.09

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
- Oscar Lavant, pianist

music quote of the day. 05.24.09

"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."
-Aldous Huxley

music quote of the day. 05.25.09

"There is only one better thing than music - live music."
-Jacek Bukowski

music quote of the day. 05.26.09

"A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection."
-John Cage

music quote of the day. 05.27.09

"To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better."
-Giuseppe Verdi

music quote of the day. 05.28.09

"Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent."
-Henry David Thoreau, (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)

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