Music Quotes - Page 6

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Maybe the key to finding the perfect song is simply rewriting the lyrics.

We forget that the sweetest joys are found in the simplest acts: hugs, laughter, quiet observation, basic movements, holding hands, pleasant music, shared stories, a listening ear, an unhurried visit, and selfless service. It is sad we forget a truth so elementary.

I look at him for a moment. Words are a weapon stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart. I come from a people of song and dance. I don’t need him to tell me the power of words. But I smile nonetheless.

And I understood why he didn’t need friends or to be accepted at our shitty racist high school, because he had his music, and that was so much better than anything we had to offer.

When something seems unbalanced and out of rhythm, just a song can tune things up in a moment. The power of music is therapy.

You stuttered like a kaleidoscope, because you knew too many words.

It was during my enchanted days of travel that the idea came to me, which, through the years, has come into my thoughts again and again and always happily - the idea that geology is the music of the earth.

Those who wish to sing always find a song.

His smile was like a Dylan album and a cup of coffee on a sunny afternoon

Why I write music? Because it hurts not to.

They would be a duet. They would be happy. What is happy, anyways?

Last night I did things my mother told me not to with the people I shouldn't see in the places that I should not go..

If the music is amazing, you can get away with anything.

Music pulls words from the heart and inspires brilliance.

I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness. How nothingness can become the most beautiful, unexplainable feeling that makes you forget about gravity for an hour.

Texting and phone calls, fireworks, blends, café au lait, and music. Yesterday's television. Work and beer. The neighbor's dog, or those strange flowers, the way it smells at Maisen. Those ordinary things I talk about with you. With you... I want to talk about love with you.

I liked old time music but what i meant by that was the period from the 1930s through the 60s, nothing before and little after.
 Performers like fats waller, Sinatra, billie holiday, louis armstrong, rosemary clooney, ella, sammy Davis Jr, dean martin... If the lyrics weren't stupid. Words were important.

Music is a language - and language, at its finest, should be music.

Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.