Top 1200 Reading Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

The only other style of music that attempts to go to the deeper place of the silence that is music is New Age music.

To me, music is not a stunt. Music is not a joke. I take every lick of music that I've ever played very serious.

The 'music industry' is not a term I use. I tend to concentrate on music, and the music business is something different.

I'm a big fan of music, I'm a student of music, and I just wanna learn and keep enhancing my education about the music.

The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.

I love how music can create an audiovisual experience. To me, some of the best music is the music that does that.

I think the music industry is something that's very separate from music. So, by always staying on the music side of it, I've found success.

Next to meditation is music, soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness.

The diligent reading of Sacred Scripture accompanied by prayer brings about that intimate dialogue in which the person reading hears God who is speaking, and in praying, responds to him with trusting openness of heart. If it is effectively promoted, this practice will bring to the Church-I am convinced of it-a new spiritual springtime.

My four-year-old daughter regularly requests reading Book One [the March] at bedtime; the methods of reading, delivering, and processing the book's content vary according to a kid's age and developmental level, but she's deeply affected by the story, asking follow-up questions for days.

I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.

I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.

Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything.

I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music.

Popular music is one endless love song that, I suspect, the basically solitary Ella Fitzgerald approached much as the basically solitary Marianne Moore approached poetry: reading it with a certain contempt for it, Moore said, you could find a place in it for the genuine.

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and the Koran. I was reading comic books too.

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.

Dabbling in music and being in music when I was young I had my own view of what I thought music was whether it was jazz, r&b, or hip hop.

There are two kinds of music: good music and bad music. Both are and will continue to co-exist.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

I hear music Mighty fine music, The murmur of a morning breeze up there The rattle of the milkman on the stair Sure that's music.

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

I'm not as aware of categories in music as some people are. To me it's just music. I'm interested in all kinds of music.

I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me.

Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues.

Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.

I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.

The art of injudicious reading, the art of miscellaneous reading which every normal man ought to cultivate, is a very fine and satisfactory art; for the best guide to books is a book itself. It clasps hands with a thousand other books.

I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.

I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading.

Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.

Radio is the medium that most closely approximates the experience of reading. As a novelist, I find it very exciting to be able to reach people who might not ever pick up one of my books, either because they can't afford it (as is often the case in Latin America), or because they just don't have the habit of reading novels.

The Indian music scene is completely dominated by Bollywood music. We need to create space for indi-pop music.

It is the responsibility of music composers to add some classical music elements into their songs to make the music genre popular.

Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing.

There's a different experience when you're reading a book rather than when you're seeing something on screen. When you're seeing a movie or TV show, it's a three-dimensional experience you're in the middle of, but when you're reading something, you're suppling the reality with your imagination.

If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful.

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

Everything I do, I'm always playing music. When I wake up in the morning, I'm playing music. When I'm showering, I've got music playing. When I go to the field, music is playing.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

I very much enjoy working with talented filmmakers who have a good sense for music, who have a strong feel for music and for what music can do in a film.

Everyone loves to run with music in their ears, but when the music becomes adaptive, the music plays a more important role in the experience.

When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a 'Led Zeppelin IV' cassette tape in the garage, and it was just amazing-sounding music, not like anything I'd heard before. I remember thinking: 'Well, if God created music, why is his music in church not as good as this?'

When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.

I'm still trying to do me and just make good music and quality music, music that you can feel.

I've been a big music guy for a long time and a lot of my books have music in them so I like music analogies.

I've learned how to sleep on airplanes. When I'm taking a trans-Atlantic flight or going to a different continent, I will always read because reading puts me to sleep. When you watch a movie, you have all that light coming to your eyes, but with reading, I can't get through 15 or 20 pages.

I'm a very outgoing guy when it comes to music and I like all kinds of sounds of music and genres of music.

Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass players - anyone in music can rise to make a major statement but in poetry there are only words to do the work. And they do sometimes have to sweat.

I listen to music all the time. I need music and I love music and I appreciate it. It inspires me.

I grew up listening to a lot of emo music, a lot of rock music, a lot of rap music, a lot of trap music, funk, everything.

You know a photo session is really a dance and making sure that they're comfortable and for me it's the music, the music, the music. That is everything.

Musicians do music for the girls. We do music for the money. We do music for the recognition, for the rock and roll history. But we also do it because it's fun.

I think the music that speaks to me the most is music that is personal. And that's the music that I'm trying to make.

Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.

Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't.

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.

That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen in our lives, and there's music that's unique to that movie.

There's very little to be said for learning a piece note by note, reading the rhythmic markings, practising the fingerings and following your instructor's suggestions, if you haven't any idea how the music will eventually sound and feel. If you learn a piece mechanically, you may have to 'unlearn' it before you can play it with expression and feeling.