#music

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music. ↗

— John Keats

#nothing #only #stable #uproar #world

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you. ↗

— Charles Hart

#night #possession #music

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't. ↗

— Mark Twain

#music

If I cannot fly, let me sing. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#singing #song #music

We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road, I guess that's what they call character, I guess that's just the way it goes, better to be dusty than polished, like some store window mannequin, why don't you touch me where i'm rusty, let me stain your hands ↗

— Ani DiFranco

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Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#practice #music

He who sings scares away his woes. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

#singing #music

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#lifelong-learning #philosophy #music

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#music #power-of-music #music

Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#music #sex #music