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“The Magistrate mapped the city through the music he listened to, each song a landmark in the labyrinth of his mind.”
Tendai Huchu (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“we don’t earn much in terms of copyright and you know a lot of artists have been trying to fight so that people get paid for their music.If a song plays in radio or in a club and we are earning from it, we should be earning from it but that law is still very week but we are working on it.”
Rachael Magoola (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Musicians are respected, but only in the context that the music itself belongs to the community - not to the person who is playing an instrument or singing a song.”
Tracey Rose (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That is why I composed a song for President Uhuru. Kenya is like my second home and has given me a lot of opportunities. I get inspiration from fellow artists like Emmy Kosgei and get to appreciate people with great music like Mary Atieno.”
Rose Mhando (born 1976) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rose Muhando speaks on troubled life, love for Kenya, By Caroline Chebet, retrieved on Jan. 12, 2020
“I can’t compare the music because we speak different languages, our accents are different and we have our different tastes. The West has theirs and we have ours. This is why when we collaborate, it is always a hit song”
Nandy (singer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love talking about music. I’ll show you a song and break it down for 50 minutes. I’m a geek about it.” – Tyler, the Creator”
Tyler, the Creator (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We were both successful with our projects. I was able to get my book across hundreds of platforms, generating revenue, and Chika was able to get his song across hundreds of music streaming and download websites.”
Chidi Nwaogu (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When a unit of any work–book, audiobook, song, music video, and short or feature films sold.”
Chidi Nwaogu (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The active life of Catholic Art (as developed in Architecture, Sculpture and Painting) must breathe and palpitate as well in Church Music and Plain Song, for it is universally acknowledged that all arts flourish hand in hand with the Church.”
Franz Xaver Haberl (1840–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(About Riccardo Cocciante) He released a beautiful song called 'Poesia' to some success, and he represents hope for our pop music.”
Renzo Arbore (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The anti-Christ of song. A bombshell. The innovator. The man to whom Italian music owes the most.”
Renzo Arbore (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To me, I will always make music with the person who can take the song to another level. That will never change.”
“The poem is only complete if it becomes song, word and music at the same time.”
Léopold Sedar Senghor (1906–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Music is spiritual, and you could tell we had the chemistry doing the song.”
Diana Hamilton (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every single song has a message, my music reflects my life.”
Amor Vittone (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You see, before you are able to reach a lot of people with the word of God with your music, you need money to push it. When you write a song about salvation and you don’t get money to push it, no one will hear it.”
Joyce Blessing wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Good native Taste, tho’ rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees.”
John Armstrong (poet) (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Charlotte Gainsbourg: "Madonna was incredibly quick and professional. I was unable to say anything else than 'Hello','I’ll listen to it' and 'Good-bye' [when she asked to use a few lines from "The Cement Garden" for her song, "What it Feels Like for a Girl"]. That was incredibly stupid of me. Madonna was the idol of my youth and I grew up listening to her music.”
Madonna (entertainer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lady Gaga: "[On the outfit Cher wears in the music video for the song "If I Could Turn Back Time"] I dress like that! That's my everyday look. Maybe just sort of subliminally when I was younger, without even realizing it, one day I knew that [Cher] was the kind of woman I would become.”
“The rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In the negro melodies of America I discover all that is needed for a great and noble school of music. They are pathetic, tender, passionate, melancholy, solemn, religious, bold, merry, gay or what you will. It is music that suits itself to any mood or any purpose. There is nothing in the whole age of composition that cannot be supplied with themes from this source.”
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) first seen 1893 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed by James Creelman, New York Herald, May 21, 1893.
“The time is past when music was written for a handful of aesthetes. Today vast crowds of people have come face to face with serious music and are waiting with eager impatience. Composers, take heed of this…But this does not mean that you must pander to this audience. Pandering always has an element of insincerity about it and nothing good ever came of that.”
Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Page 106; from a notebook entry (1937).
“I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel (rightly or wrongly) that unless a piece of music presents a problem to me, a never-ending problem, it doesn't interest me too much.”
Artur Schnabel (1882–1951) said by 1951 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.”
George Gershwin (1898–1937) first seen 1930 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Isaac Goldberg Tin Pan Alley (New York: John Day, 1930) p. viii.
“Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.”
George Gershwin (1898–1937) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Relation of Jazz to American Music", in Henry Cowell (ed.) American Composers on American Music (1933); reprinted in Gregory R. Suriano (ed.) Gershwin in His Time (New York: Gramercy, 1998) p. 97.
“My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the external manifestations of thought and feeling must, without exaggeration or violence, become true, accurate music.”
Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881) first seen 1868 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Lyudmila Shestakova, July 30, 1868; Jay Leyda and Sergei Bertensson The Musorgsky Reader (1947) p. 113.
“Hears the music under the rock One of these days he'll stop Don't stop when the music stops.”
Ysabella Brave (born 1979) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Such a Quiet Man (original song!)", the first original song she posted to YouTube, about which she wrote: "I got bored so I wrote this song tonight. The music, instruments, the lyrics, backup vocals, everything was me. …
“I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music … It has probably been the biggest relationship in my life. It's my fascination, my on-going passion. … I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.”
Siobhan Fahey (born 1958) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mad About The Music" in The Daily Telegraph (13 June 1996)
“My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.”
Alan Hovhaness (1911–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am not sure if I have heard a description of my music that would have been 100% accurate. I just make the kind of music I like myself, it is up to other people to find words that describe it.”
Jaani Peuhu (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Skylark, Have you seen a valley green with Spring Where my heart can go a-journeying, Over the shadows in the rain To a blossom covered lane? And in your lonely flight, Haven't you heard the music in the night, Wonderful music, Faint as a will-o-the-wisp, Crazy as a loon, Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon.”
Johnny Mercer (1909–1976) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Song: "Skylark" (1942)
“There is no foundational mathematical or physical reason the relationship between Pythagorean and tempered western music should exist. It just does. The rich flexibility of the tempered scale and the … bountiful archives of western music are a testimonial to this wonderful coincidence provided by nature.”
Robert J. Marks II (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[S]ome modern [Christian] praise music sung in churches during Sunday worship service is referred to as 7-11 music: seven words repeated eleven times.”
Robert J. Marks II (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The game of Bees in the Trees is a variant of musical chairs and is best played with funeral music and in the open air. The object of the game is to sit down on a vacant chair when the music stops. If the chair sat in is occupied by bees, it is permissible to arrange a professional foul.”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“a man we can regard as a spiritual fellow countryman, a man eminent in music, eminent in human virtues, eminent in liberty. Of all his qualities the least is music-and he is one of the great musicians of the world: Maestro Pablo Casals!”
Luis Muñoz Marín (1898–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Music for me is something I prefer to keep away form the whole business part of my life. I feel like everything I do, in a way, has some sort of business around it. So with my music I can have my privacy. If people don’t have to pay for it then I think they can be a little more open to new ideas.”
Milla Jovovich (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“See, when you get down to the basics of it, everything’s just molecules vibrating. Which is what music is, what sound is—vibrations in the air. So we’re all part of that music and the worthier it is, the more voices we can add to it, the better off we all are.”
Charles de Lint (born 1951) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Saskia in Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (eds.), Space Opera (1996), p. 367
“I want to move away from complexity. I've done my time as far as virtuosity and piles of notes are concerned. It's what puts me off a lot of contemporary classical music - there are so many notes. In fact, I think I'm moving away from classical music altogether. I'm not sure that in 10 years' time I'll be playing it at all.”
Joanna MacGregor (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You don't rely on a great army of people to spoon-feed you. Today's classical-music world is very self-defeating. I love the fact that all these corporations are falling apart. They're sinking millions into acts and getting it wrong. And I know why - it's not about the music, or the audiences. So in many ways this is a very encouraging time.”
Joanna MacGregor (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I integrate music from all over the world in my sets, harmony is what my music and life are built upon.”
“I suppose you don't have much time for enjoying music," Clary said, thinking of Simon, for whom music was his entire life, "in your line of work." He shrugged. "Maybe the occasional wailing chorus of the damned.”
Cassandra Clare (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To encourage children into Rock Music is to place them into the white hot arms of Molech and the beat and power behind the music will drown out the cries of your child as occultic powers consume him and drag him into the fires of hell!”
Ray Comfort (born 1949) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Pit of Hell!: Unbelievable Satanic Deception Flooding the Earth! (1983)
“I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It's the artist's job to create imagery that matches the music... I think they're very intertwined.”
“My real fans understand what it is I do, but on another level I have fans who just love my music and don’t know I write it and enjoy it shallowly — and that’s OK too. I think art and music should be just as powerful if you drink it shallow as if you drink it deep.”
“I don't want to see Bowie in a tracksuit. He never let anyone see him that way. The outlet for my work is not just the music and the videos, it's every breathing moment of my life. I'm always saying something about art and music and fame. That's why you don't ever catch me in sweatpants.”
“The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.”
Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) first seen 1844 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in The Musical Times, February 1909; cited from Percy A. Scholes The Mirror of Music, 1844-1944 (London: Novello, 1947) vol. 1, p. 267.
“The Communist Manifesto was our Bible... It's in our souls, our friendship, our music… This is music for the people. We were kamikaze. For your land you would kill everyone that came from the capitalist foreign land.”
Till Lindemann (born 1963) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in A LITTLE FRIGHT MUSIC, 1998
“They [Sisters of Charity in Frederick] excel in music, which is an indispensable thing in this country, even for the poor. No piano, no pupils! Such is the spirit of this country -- Music and Steam!”
Théodore Guérin (1798–1856) said by 1856 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience; that all his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning - the music itself, which, after all, is the whole reason for the conductor's existence.”
Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The problem these days is again just the sheer amount of music available, and that music isn't as important an experience in people's lives in the 21st century as it was previously.”
Andrew Sega (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source