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!!!

music quote of the day. 08.20.09

"If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness."
-John Lennon

music quote of the day. 08.21.09

"If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you."
-Frank Sinatra

music quote of the day. 08.22.09

"All the sounds of the earth are like music."
-Oscar Hammerstein

music quote of the day. 08.23.09

"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."
-Howard Dietz

music quote of the day. 08.24.09

"Truly to sing, that is a different breath."
-Rainer Maria Rilke

quote of the day. 08.25.09

"Music can change the world because it can change people."
-Bono

quote of the day. 08.26.09

"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. 08.27.09

"When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy."
-James Brown

quote of the day. 08.28.09

"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception."
-Albert Einstein (When asked about his theory of relativity)

music quote of the day. 08.29.09

"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best."
-Henry Van Dyke

quote of the day. 08.30.09

"Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!"
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

quote of the day. 08.31.09

"You are the music while the music lasts. "
-T.S. Eliot

quote of the day. 09.01.09

"He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once."
-Robert Browning

quote of the day. 09.02.09

"The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. "
-Leonard Bernstein

quote of the day. 09.03.09

"Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time."
-Igor Stravinsky

quote of the day. 09.04.09

"The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic."
-Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

quote of the day. 09.05.09

"It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible. "
-Victor de LaPrade

quote of the day. 09.06.09

"Music is my religion."
-Jimi Hendrix

quote of the day. 09.07.09

"Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

quote of the day. 09.08.09

"My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require."
-Edward Elgar

quote of the day. 09.09.09

"When you are creating your own shit, man, even the sky ain't the limit."
-Miles Davies

quote of the day. 09.10.09

"Music is what life sounds like. "
-Eric Olson

quote of the day. 09.11.09

"Music should never be harmless."
-Robbie Robertson

quote of the day. 09.12.09

"Music is Magic. Magic is Life"
-Jimi Hendrix
(part of an unfinished song discovered after his death)

music quote of the day. 09.13.09

"...although one can get very clever at home, progress comes a lot quicker if you step into a room with other people and start playing."
-Steve Howe (Yes)

quote of the day. 09.14.09

"When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ...hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail!"
-Bob Dylan

quote of the day. 09.15.09

"Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone."
-Duke Ellington

quote of the day. 09.16.09

"I went through a lot of mental pains and anguish about choosing between jazz and classical. I realized that where I functioned was where I should be, and where I functioned was in jazz, so that was it."
-Bill Evans

quote of the day. 09.17.09

"It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can't pigeonhole it to their satisfaction... Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody."
-Bradley Nowell

quote of the day. 09.18.09

"Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted."
-John Lennon

quote of the day. 09.19.09

"I think, fundamentally, music is something inherently people love and need and relate to, and a lot of what's out right now feels like McDonalds. It's quick-fix. You kind of have a stomachache afterwards."
-Trent Reznor

music quote of the day. 09.20.09

"A guitar is more than just a sound box... it is part of your soul."
-Manuel Velazquez

quote of the day. 09.21.09

"If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it."
-Domenico Cieri Estrada

quote of the day. 09.22.09

"A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it!"
-Miles Davis

music quote of the day. 09.23.09

"Less is more."
-Mies van der Rohe (Architect)

quote of the day. 09.24.09

"Playing any musical instrument is easy: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time, and the instrument will play itself."
-J.S. Bach

quote of the day. 09.25.09

"You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?"
-Bryan Ferry

quote of the day. 09.26.09

"To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician would be the point at which one is innocent at will. At that point the relationship between music and the musician is direct and reliable.
The relationship with music is always mysterious: when it works, you can never tell. You can never guarantee when it's going to work. You can only to put yourself in a place where it's more likely to happen."
-Robert Fripp

quote of the day. 09.27.09

"Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts: I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing..."
-John Scofield

quote of the day. 09.28.09

"You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow."
-Oscar Levant (explaining his way out of a speeding ticket)

quote of the day. 09.29.09

"We need not destroy the past. It is gone."
-John Cage

music quote of the day. 09.30.09

"I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked"
-Jimi Hendrix

music quote of the day. 10.01.09

"...don't be afraid to screw up! One of the key issues to learning is making mistakes... if you're not making mistakes, you're probably not having a verygood time."
-Robben Ford

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