Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Music Quotes, Thinking Quotes

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

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... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music.

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PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

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The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance.

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One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

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How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

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The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.

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There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.

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Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

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NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

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If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

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Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.

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It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

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From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

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All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

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It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

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I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.

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My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

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