Feel-good quotes on music

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“be excellent to each other.”
“and party on, dudes.” – Bill & Ted 😁

Most musicians live, eat, and breathe music. They anticipate the next project, perfect the next performance, engage the next audience, and strive to grow musically every day. At the end of their life span, they typi-cally wish for more years in which to continue their romance with the muse. The excitement never wanes. The thrill never ends. The love deep-ens. The satisfaction is unmatched and infinite. If such sentiments seem high-flown, read the comments of a few famous musicians about their art:

• The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

• I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

• Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love. Hector Berlioz (1803–1869)

• Music is an outburst of the soul. Frederick Delius (1862–1934)

• Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)

• 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 (1896–1989)

• To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. Aaron Copland (1900–1990)

• Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous. Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999)

Philosophers and thinkers have also pondered the wonder of music and its effects for centuries:

• Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. Lao Tzu (b. 6th century b.c.)

• Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. Confucius (551–479 b.c.)

• Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Plato (428–348 b.c.)

• Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. Walter Savage Landor, English writer (1775–1864)

• Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to remain silent. Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

• Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

• Where words fail, music speaks. Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875)

• Music is the universal language of mankind. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)

• When I hear music, I fear no danger, I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest of times, and to the latest. Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

• Without music, life would be an error. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

• Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. Kahlil Gibran Lebanese-born American philosophical essayist and poet (1883–1931)

Gordon, Stewart. Planning Your Piano Success : A Blueprint for Aspiring Musicians. Oxford University Press, 2014.

• Of course I’m in it for the girls and the money, why wouldn’t I be? Gene Simmons. 😎

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

[Dave Pickering]

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” – Aldous Huxley

My biggest fear is when I die, my wife will sell my guitars for what I told her they cost.

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I smell skunk!-Buck Owens on Hee Haw 1976. Just kidding.

[superblonde]

“Don’t despair over the music industry, if making music is what you’re going to do, and you can actually do it, meaning that you can make yourself do it, then you’re going to be just fine in music, because it is very difficult to find people who are creative, and who can stay the course, able to work in teams, are not insane, can read and write and all that stuff.” – Producer Fab DuPont, during a livestream today

..not insane, 😂

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

[superblonde]

I was looking up Mellencamp because of the other recent thread and came across a recent interview where he says this cool thing:

JOHN MELLENCAMP: Well, I don’t really know how a 25-year-old guy would know that life would go on long after the thrill of living is gone. But I wrote those words. And I don’t know why I wrote ’em ’cause I clearly wouldn’t have understood that at that point in my life. And I was criticized for writing those words: “Mellencamp is writing songs discouraging people not to live life to the fullest.”

I mean, you know, they were looking for anything to give me s*** about. Right? (laughs) But it turned out to be true. And for me it was very helpful because, I don’t know about you, but I want to do something every day. I want to learn something every day. I want to make something every day. I have to make something every day. Every day. Whether it’s a painting, whether it’s a song. Even if it’s just a couple sketches.I have to make something every day. And I also work out. And if I skip working out I feel guilty about it. If I go for a day and don’t make anything I feel guilty about it. It’s like, “You lazy bum. Get up there and get going.”

Step 1. Get out of the lockdown pajamas
Step 2. …

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

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