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Music Quote
A great, wise, William Shakespeare music quote just for you, in this wonderful, march, spring, saturday morning. Enjoy and share with people you love :)
“When words fail, music speaks.” – William Shakespeare
Jim Morrison Quotes
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
What the people want, is they want a artist or a band to come along that’s just totally casting aside all the past and all the business associations. To give the impression ‘were doing this for a reason’ not because we are out here to make a lot of bread
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just…in between. I want the freedom to try everything
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being, with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
That’s what real love amounts to,letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing. You get to love your pretence. It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act
If I had it, to do it all over again, I think I would have gone more for the quiet, undemonstrative, little artist plotting away in his own gardening
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors
I drink so I can talk to assholes
Where’s your will to be weird?
Really it was a lifestyle that was on trial more than any specific incident.
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It’s their security…How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don’t really want to be free?
There was a great renaissance of spirit and emotion and revolutionary sentiment. When things didn’t change overnight, I think people resented the fact that that we were still around doing good music.
The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps “Oh look at that!” Then- whoosh, and I’m gone…and they’ll never see anything like it ever again… and they won’t be able to forget me- ever.
A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them.
Obviously that can only work at moments. It can’t be a lasting thing.
That’s not saying that people shouldn’t keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Who knows, someday we might conquer death
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you’re doing something.
As I understand it, paranoia’s defined as an irrational fear. But what if the paranoia is real?
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences
Idiots Quotes
– “Treat everyone the same until you find out they’re an idiot.” – Lucy Lawless
– “Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.” – George Jean Nathan
– “Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!” – Arthur Schopenhauer
– “But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand parents were Chinese. But for some reason, they feel they are not Chinese.” – Alex Chiu
– “By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.” – Jason Bateman
– “Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.” – Karl Kraus
– “For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.” – Honore De Balzac
– “From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.” – Mikhail Bakunin
– “Guys are idiots, till they’re what, 40 years old.” – Wes Borland
– “Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.” – Walter Kerr
– “Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they’re the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.” – Trey Parker
– “Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it’s natural to show them being idiots at home.” – Patricia Heaton
– “I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.” – Muammar al-Gaddafi
– “I don’t mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they’re such a bunch of idiots, why don’t you show them good music instead? They’re not going to know the difference.” – Kristin Hersh
– “I think that most artists are leaning towards fragile idiots.” – Josh Silver
– “I think the terrorists are just idiots.” – Joel Madden
Funny Love Quotes
Shopping is better than sex. At least if you’re not satisfied, you can exchange it for something you really like. – Adrienne Gusoff
An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. – Agatha Christie
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
So each is inevitably disappointed. – Albert Einstein
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity. – Albert Einstein
Men make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. – Anonymous
You know it’s love when you want to keep holding hands even after you’re sweaty. – Anonymous
The four most important words in any marriage…”I’ll do the dishes.” – Anonymous
No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying. – Anonymous
Marriage is like jogging through a puddle of industrial strength rubber glue. You can work hard and make it through the struggles; however, you usually leave your bobby socks and sneakers behind along the way. – Anonymous
When a relationship goes flat, so does a couple of sets of car tires. – Anonymous
Men only have two faults….What they do, and what they say! – Anonymous
You can’t buy love on eBay. – Anonymous
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it? – Bette Midler
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. – Brendan Francis
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch. – Cathy Carlyle
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. – Cecilia Egan
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing — and then marry him. – Cher
Men aren’t necessities, they’re luxuries. – Cher
By the time you swear you’re his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is infinite, undying –
Lady, make note of this: One of you is lying. – Dorothy Parker
I’m always looking for meaningful one night stands. – Dudley Moore
Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery. – Erma Bombeck
Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. – Fran Lebowitz
It is impossible to love and be wise. – Francis Bacon
Marriage marks the end of many short follies – being one long stupidity. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery. – Fulton J. Sheen
Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it. – George Carlin
Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one. – Glenn Beck
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. – Groucho Marx
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. – Helen Rowland
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy. – Henry Kissinger
When we got married I told my wife “If you leave me, I’m going with you.” And she never did. – James Fineous McBride
Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house. – Jean Kerr
Abba Quotes
“I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it’s really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.” – Agnetha Faltskog
“I had a dream and it was fulfilled by meeting with Benny, Bjorn and Agnetha.” – Anni-Frid Lyngstad
“We don’t want to write political songs. We don’t want to turn our records into speeches.” – Benny Andersson
“There’s a real melancholy in [Abba’s] songs… all the flourishes, like big double octaves on the piano. We stole them like crazy.” – Elvis Costello
“I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it’s my stuff.” – Lasse Hallstrom
“I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers.” – Elaine Paige
“I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.” – Pete Waterman
“I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA.” – Martin Fry
“You’re not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It’s nerdy.” – Izabella Scorupco
Let’s Party
“If the music is too loud, you’re too old.”
Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
Let’s celebrate Dizzy Gillespie‘s birthday with some great quotes.
How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don’t you ask him? And besides, maybe we’d all like to be like Miles, and just haven’t got the guts.
I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we’re here is to be a part of this process of exchange.
I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.
I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It’s time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It’s time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.
I’d like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.
It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.
Men have died for this music. You can’t get more serious than that.
They’re not particular about whether you’re playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.
Music Quotes
“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.” – Ed Gardner
“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” – Robert Fripp
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.” – Plato
“Life is one grand, sweet song so start the music.” – Ronald Reagan
“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.” – Bill Cosby
“Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.” – Samuel Johnson
“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” – Lao Tzu
“I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.” – Elvis Presley
“Music is a safe kind of high.” – Jimi Hendrix
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” – Victor Hugo
Movies Quotes
“This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.” – Clint Eastwood
“All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.” – Steve Martin
“A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.” – David Mamet
“Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.” – Billy Wilder
“The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.” – Jodie Foster
“A film has its own life and takes its own time.” – Aaron Eckhart
“Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.” – Walt Disney
“The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman, and have a French boyfriend.” – Katharine Hepburn
“In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.” – Gwyneth Paltrow
“Every great film should seem new every time you see it.” – Roger Ebert