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. 05.29.09

"Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without"
-Confucius, 551-479 BC

quote of the day. 05.30.09

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work."
-Emile Zola

quote of the day. 05.31.09

"Don't fear mistakes: there are none..."
-Miles Davis

quote of the day. 06.01.09

"Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you."
-Charlie Parker

quote of the day. 06.02.09

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
-Jimi Hendrix

quote of the day. 06.03.09

"The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, 'Sometimes I just breathe you in'."
-Tori Amos

quote of the day. 06.04.09

"I know absolutely nothing about music."
-Richard Wagner

quote of the day. 06.05.09

"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)."
-Duke Ellington

quote of the day. 06.06.09

"Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try."
-M.K. Ash

quote of the day. 06.07.09

"Music is everything one listens to with the intention of listening to music."
-Luciano Berio

quote of the day. 06.08.09

"If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits."
-Nattiez, Jean-Jacques

quote of the day. 06.09.09

"Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence."
-Carl Jung

quote of the day. 06.10.09

"Most people die with their music still locked up inside them."
-Benjamin Disraeli

quote of the day. 06.11.09

"When the music changes, so does the dance."
African Proverb

quote of the day. 06.12.09

"I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down."
-Virgil Thomson, (American Composer, 1896-1989)

quote of the day. 06.13.09

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
Albert Einstein

quote of the day. 06.14.09

"Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it."
-Henry David Thoreau

quote of the day. 06.15.09

"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."
-Igor Stravinsky

quote of the day. 06.16.09

"Don't fear mistakes, there are none."
-Miles Davis

quote of the day. 06.17.09

"All we are saying, is give peace a chance!"
-John Lennon

quote of the day. 06.18.09

".. I get more of a dreamy thing from the audience - it's more of a thing that you go up into. You get into such a pitch sometimes that you go up into another thing. You don't forget about the audience, but you forget about all the paranoia, that thing where you're saying, 'Oh gosh, I'm on stage - what am I going to do now ?' - Then you go into this other thing, and it turns out to be like almost like a play in certain ways"
-Jimi Hendrix

quote of the day. 06.19.09

"Music is the poetry of the air.
-Svyatoslav Richter

quote of the day. 06.20.09

"You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.
-Charlie Parker

quote of the day. 06.21.09

"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides!
-Artur Schnabel

quote of the day. 06.22.09

"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence."
-Robert Fripp

quote of the day. 06.23.09

"Technically, I am not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion."
-Jimi Hendrix

quote of the day. 06.24.09

"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."
-Henry David Thoreau (American essayist, poet, & philosopher, 1817-1862)

quote of the day. 06.25.09

"The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished."
-Richard Wagner

quote of the day. 06.26.09

"For me, music and life are all about style."
-Miles Davis

quote of the day. 06.27.09

"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another."
- Frank Zappa

quote of the day. 06.28.09

"Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens."
-John Cage

quote of the day. 06.29.09

"I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes."
-Arnold Schoenberg

quote of the day. 06.30.09

"Talent works, genius creates."
-Robert Schumann

music quote of the day. 07.01.09

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."
-John Keats

music quote of the day. 07.02.09

"Don't play what's there, play what's not there"
-Miles Davis

music quote of the day. 07.03.09

"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."
-G. K. Chesterton

music quote of the day. 07.04.09

"As the painter needs his framework of parchment, the improvising musical group needs its framework in time."
-Bill Evans

music quote of the day. 07.05.09

"I know absolutely nothing about music."
-Richard Wagner

music quote of the day. 07.06.09

"Music should enrich the soul; it should teach spirituality by showing a person a portion of himself that he would not discover otherwise. It's easy to rediscover part of yourself, but through art you can be shown part of yourself you never knew existed. That's the real mission of art. The artist has to find something within himself that's universal and which he can put into terms that are communicable to other people. The magic of it is that art can communicate to a person without his realizing it... enrichment, that's the function of music."
-Bill Evans

music quote of the day. 07.07.09

"Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do."
-Johannes Brahms

music quote of the day. 08.19.09

"It's more than beauty that I feel in music -that I think that musicians feel in music. What we know we feel we'd like to convey to the listener. We hope that this can be shared by all. I think, basically, that's about what it is we're trying to do. If you ask me that question, I might say this today and tomorrow something entirely different, because there are many things to do in music.

But over-all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows and senses in the universe. That's what music is to me -it's just another way of saying this is a big, beautiful universe we live in, that's been given to us, and here's an example of just how magnificent and encompassing it is. That's what I would like to do, I think that's one of the greatest things you can do in life, and we try to do it in some way. The musician's way is through his music."
-John Coltrane (When asked what he and Eric Dolphy were trying to achieve)

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