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  • "With technology becoming as advanced as it is - just about anyone thinks they can call themselves a DJ... this is like someone buying a stethoscope and calling themselves a Doctor. Being a PROFESSIONAL DJ is a skill that is created within by the experience you attain, not the equipment you posses. Don't buy an IPod, download illegal music, and call yourself a DJ." -DJ Robert Starkey- w:http://www.havasuweddingdj.com
  • "... I think, fundamentally, music is something inherently people love and need and relate to, and a lot of what's out right now feels like McDonalds. It's quick-fix. You kind of have a stomachache afterwards." -Trent Reznor - Salt Lake Tribune Interview (09/29/2005)
  • "2 A.M., and I'm still awake writing this song.
    If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer
    Inside of me, threatenin' the life it belongs to." -Anna Nalick, "2 A.M. (Breathe)"
  • "Ahh...music, a magic far beyond all we do here." -Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone by JK Rowling
  • "All aspects of musical practice may be disengaged, and privileged, in order to give birth to new forms of variation: variations on the relationships between the composer and the performer, between the conductor and the performer, between the performers, between the performer and the listener, variations upon gestures, variations on silence that end in a mute music that is still music because it preserves still something of the musical totality of the tradition...all elements belonging to the total musical fact may be seperated and taken as a strategic variable of musical production. This autonomization serves as true musical experimentation: little by little, the individual variables that make up a total musical fact are brought to light. Any particular music then appears as one that has made a choice among these variables, and that has privileged a certain number of them. Under these conditions, musical analysis would have to begin by recognizing the strategic variables characteristic of a given musical system: musical invention and musical analysis lend each other mutual aid." -Molino, Jean (1975). p.42-43. Quoted in Nattiez, Jean-Jacques (1987), Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music (Musicologie générale et sémiologue, 1987). Translated by Carolyn Abbate (1990). ISBN 0691027145.
  • "If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits." -Nattiez, Jean-Jacques (1987), Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music (Musicologie générale et sémiologue, 1987), p.99. Translated by Carolyn Abbate (1990). ISBN 0691027145.
  • "In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side -— there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return." -Gilles Deleuze, from his Essays Critical and Clinical, p. 104.
  • "It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't happen. They must be constructed.... To demonstrate any formal idea in music, whether structure or stricture, is a matter of construction, in which the methodology is the controlling metaphor of the composition... Only by 'unfixing' the elements traditionally used to construct a piece of music could the sounds exist in themselves -- not as symbols, or memories which were memories of other music to begin with." -Morton Feldman, quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812
  • "It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can't pigeonhole it to their satisfaction...Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody." -Bradley Nowell
  • "Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound." -Eduard Hanslick, quoted by Wolfgang Sandberger (1996) in the liner notes to the Juilliard String Quartet's Intimate Letters. Sony Classical SK 66840.
  • "One day I said to myself that it would be better to get rid of all that -- melody, rhythm, harmony, etc. This was not a negative thought and did not mean that it was necessary to avoid them, but rather that, while doing something else, they would appear spontaneously. We had to liberate ourselves from the direct and peremptory consequence of intention and effect, because the intention would always be our own and would be circumscribed, when so many other forces are evidently in action in the final effect." — Christian Wolff, quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812
  • "Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring in the bustle of our daily lives. I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm." — Edgard Varese, quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812
  • "We can no longer maintain any distinction between music and discourse about music, between the supposed object of analysis and the terms of analysis." -Bruce Horner (1999). Discourse. Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture. Malden, Massachusetts. ISBN 0631212639.
  • "We must ask whether a cross-cultural musical universal is to be found in the music itself (either its structure or function) or the way in which music is made. By 'music-making,' I intend not only actual performance but also how music is heard, understood, even learned." — Dane Harwood (1976:522). "Universals in Music: A Perspective from Cognitive Psychology", Ethnomusicology 20, no. 3:521-33
  • "We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word." — Wynton Marsalis in Smithsonian Magazine, November 2005.
  • "The term 'chromatic' is understood by musicians to refer to music which includes tones which are not members of the prevailing scale, and also as a word descriptive of those individually non-diatonic tones." — Shir-Cliff, etc. (1965). Chromatic Harmony. New York: The Free Press. ISBN 0029286301.
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  • "Music is everything one listens to with the intention of listening to music." -- Luciano Berio
  • "No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible." -- W. H. Auden
  • "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." -- Victor Hugo
  • "If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music." -- Gustav Mahler
  • "Are we making converts to Christ, or to Christian music?" --Kerry Livgren, guitarist for Kansas
  • "Music is what I love and it's what I feel and it's in me and to know that I can do something that I enjoy and hopefully bring some enjoyment to other people through is an incredible felling and I am just really thankful for it." --Mariah Carey
  • "The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, 'Sometimes I just breathe you in.'" -Tori Amos
  • "Music is all a simple math. First you play it by the rules. Then you play it by the heart." -Surej Anwar
  • "Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence." --Carl Jung
  • "My mother's idol among pianists was Paderewski. I knew that I would never be a Paderewski, so I searched among the other great pianists of the day, looking for a model, and I found one at last who seemed to be just right for me. He was Vladimir de Pachmann. His style was refined, and so was mine. He was distinguished for the fact that especially in the works of Chopin he struck a great number of wrong notes. It was here that I knew I could rival him, and perhaps even excel him. You see, he struck his wrong notes in extremely rapid passages; I worked at my technique until I was certain that I could strike great numbers of wrong notes in very slow passages." -Robertson Davies, "My Musical Career"
  • "When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself." --Leonard Cohen
  • "Sounds like two skeletons fucking on a tin roof" — Sir Thomas Beecham, famous British conductor, when asked about his opinion of "modern music".
  • "Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound." —Thomas Aquinas
  • "The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.' " ~ Aaron Copland
  • "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
  • "An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. " Dan Rather
  • " But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument. " Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
  • "Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. " Oscar Wilde
  • " Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable. " Martin Luther
  • "My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. " Martin Luther
  • "Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • "Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings." Ed Gardner
  • "My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. " Edith Sitwell
  • "I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." Elvis Presley
  • "Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist." G. K. Chesterton
  • "There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. " George Eliot
  • "I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. " George Eliot
  • "Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. " George Santayana
  • "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music." Groucho Marx
  • "Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards. " Homer
  • "Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy. " Jean Baptiste Montegut
  • "If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience. " John Cage
  • "Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing." John Erskine
  • "Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune." Kin Hubbard
  • "Those who are affected by music can be divided into two classes: those who hear the spiritual meaning, and those who hear the material sound. There are good and evil results in each case." ~ Unknown (quoted by 9th-century philosopher Abu Sulaiman al-Davani)
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