Words And Music Quotes

I’ve outdone anyone you can name – Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Where words leave off, music begins.

Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be sub-divided rhythmically.

If you don’t live it, it won’t come out your horn.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

Double-check your voice mail message. Listen to your on-hold words and music. Write welcoming scripts for your telephone team. Pay attention to the music in your office and lobby areas. Make sure what your customers hear sounds good.

Music gives a soul to the universe.

Words and music together create powerful, powerful things.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn’t alone in my obsessive love for words and music.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Poetry’s work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

The songs started as a soundscapes, and then came the words and music; each song took at least a year to make.

Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

You are the music while the music lasts.

A song can be more than words and music … when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

Man, there’s no boundary line to art!

These are not necessarily our agendas, but we feel a part of what a performer is, and what a performer has to say is more than just words and music.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.