#music

It was like a dam of musical critique had broken. Imasu turned on him with eyes that flashed instead of shining. "It is worse than you can possibly imagine! When you play, all of my mother's flowers lose the will to live and expire on the instant. The quinoa has no flavour now. The llamas are migrating because of your music, and llamas are not a migratory animal. The children now believe there is a sickly monster, half horse and half large mournful chicken, that lives in tha lake and calls out to the world to grant it the sweet release of death. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#musicians #death

Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius. ↗

— Jon Brion

#genius #like #looks #music #outside

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#even #face #helps #like #music

Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music. ↗

— Pat Boone

#did #east #english #english teacher #far

English music is white - it evades everything. ↗

— Edward Elgar

#everything #music #white

Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so. ↗

— Nadia Boulanger

#music #rather #take #than #unless

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music. ↗

— David Bowie

#music #power #prove #sustaining #wanted

I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower. ↗

— Susan Boyle

#baby #brush #i #into #musical

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle. ↗

— Mike Watt

#expression #fit #form #get #imitation

DEAFNESS DOESN'T PREVENT COMPOSERS HEARING THE MUSIC. IT PREVENTS THEM HEARING THE DISTRACTIONS. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #music #death