Quotes About Musical Expression

#1. I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.

Gustavo Dudamel

#2. Musical expression is never primarily national, but is personal and individual rather. It is so deep, so profound, that it goes beyond and below nationality and gives voice to the most private feeling. In music there is never exact heredity. Each man is an individual.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

#3. CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression.

Annie E. Clark

#4. It's a constant challenge to get your arrangement and musical expression across to a new audience, especially when you're playing live every night like we are.

Chick Corea

#5. I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.

Linda Ronstadt

#6. Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.

James Galway

#7. There are people that appreciate the music for its musical value and there are people that will always think that it should be reserved as an expression for people who grew up with it.

Bruce Molsky

#8. With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

Wassily Kandinsky

#9. As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most any expression of the human mind and spirit, so light can be used visually to express the mind and spirit.

Wynn Bullock

#10. In terms of what's going to actually happen to me in the story, down towards the end of the season, I'm dying to know, but I just don't ask. If it's something that I think will really affect how I play it and it's information I need to know, than I'll ask, for sure.

Peter Jacobson

#11. The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Paul Klee

#12. Don't be afraid if life brings more dark to your dream,because a star can't shine without dark.

Saravanan

#13. Nevermore shall men make slaves of others! Not in Asgard
not on Earth
not any place where the hammer of Thor can be swung
or where men of good faith hold freedom dear!

Stan Lee

#14. The greatness of Mac Rebennack, alias, Dr. John, also known as John Crieux, rests on his command of the musical use of idiomatic expression. Not a technically well-endowed singer, nor a great songwriter, he leaves his mark through the discipline and control he exerts over all that he touches.

Jon Landau

#15. Kept looking for something to be in with. Follow someone's blueprint. But you have to be on your own.

Donald Glover

#16. Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?

Lynne Truss

#17. I own I never really warmed
To the reformer or reformed.
And yet conversion has its place
Not halfway down the scale of grace.

Robert Frost

#18. Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel.

Ella Fitzgerald

#19. She doesn't recognize the number - none of her friends use their phones as phones anymore.

Gabrielle Zevin

#20. If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.

Samuel Johnson

#21. Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.

Anton Webern