#music

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#conceptual #exists #however #i #modern

I'm not crying about anything or anyone in particular. The life I live I created for myself, and I wouldn't want it any different. I cry because in the universe there is something as beautiful as Kremer playing the Brains violin concerto. ↗

— Peter Hoeg

#beauty

A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it. ↗

— Dmitri Shostakoivch

#beauty

The true significance, then, of absolute music is that it expresses human personality at its finest moments, adequately, beautifully and spiritually, by the medium of sound. And therefore our finest music is one of the supreme possessions of the world ; for there is nothing greater than great personality. ↗

— J. Alfred Johnstone

#beauty

I am hated for loving. I am haunted for wanting. ↗

— Morrissey

#lyrics #music #humor

Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me? ↗

— Morrissey

#lyrics #music #humor

Give the People what they want - and they'll get what they deserve. ↗

— The Kinks

#irony #life-lessons #popular-culture #rock-music #wit

In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness. ↗