Musical Knowledge Quotes

#1. I wanted to be an artist, but at age 11, somehow all this musical knowledge and information and love for music that I had came out, and then suddenly it was very clear that I wanted to be a musician of some sort.

Gunther Schuller

#2. There's a shitload of insufferable know-it-all hipsters who will work for next to nothing for the privilege of condescending to customers about their musical knowledge.

Christopher Moore

#3. I don't think my record collection or musical knowledge is vast. I just listen to the radio all the time - I'm a pop music enthusiast.

Girl Talk

#4. My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

Jane Campion

#5. I know the Smiths, I snapped, because lord knows you can launch any kind of criticism at me, lord knows I've heard it all before, but don't you dare doubt my musical knowledge. There's not much I can do right, just this one thing, but you cannot take this one thing from me.

Leila Sales

#6. Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

John Cale

#7. The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman.

R. K. Milholland

#8. Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite 'I'. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.

Ramana Maharshi

#9. I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there.

Miroslav Vitous

#10. So many tankers come down with maintenance problems all at once. I do not think that the press is telling us the whole story. Then again, maybe they are just a little slow on the uptake. The truth will reveal that Allah has truly blessed us.

Christian F. Burton

#11. Was it fate? Was it destiny?" "I think it was Alan Blunt.

Anthony Horowitz

#12. The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions - even when that is exactly what they have announced that they will do.

Timothy Snyder

#13. Decades go faster toward the end of a century.

Hortense Calisher

#14. Suddenly Vasya understood why the women all begged him for prayers; understood, too, that his warm hand, the strong bones of his face, were a weapon, to use where the weapons of speech had failed. He would get her obedience thus, with his rough hands, his beautiful eyes.

Katherine Arden

#15. I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'

Azzedine Alaia

#16. A writer's style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous. The greatest writers have the gift of brilliant brevity, are hard workers, diligent scholars and competent stylists.

Ernest Hemingway,

#17. I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.

Hugo Black

#18. You might be a hero. I say might because the choice is ultimately yours

Lisa Bevere

#19. Life is so precious, it should be shared.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#20. Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.

Chuck Palahniuk

#21. The enemy is over there and we are still seeking revenge from the nature.

M.F. Moonzajer

#22. Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

Josiah Royce