Quotes of: Dance-music Keyword

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Steven Pinker

Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get mor...

Tunde Adebimpe

He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.

1984

The outer bands of the tropical storm didn’t play as good of music as the inner bands near the eye did.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Of course, of course. Drugs, music, a new age dawning … and you came for an old book.

Ajax Penumbra 1969

I may not have written the song, but I could add my story to it. Everyone out there could. That was what made music so powerful.

Amplified

I love you, music man. You are my happily ever after.

Accidentally Married on Purpose

The night seemed suddenly defiled by the absence of music, as if the silence itself was injecting a sickness that only another song could cure.

The Accidental Siren

Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.

Annie, Between the States

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. Th...

Thom Yorke

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a cer...

Thom Yorke

I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.

Zooey Deschanel

It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.

Hold Still

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.

Island Beneath the Sea

For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Becuase all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen.

I'll Be There

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

Just Listen

Too bad people can't always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn't be any more wars.

Rowan Farm

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

The Republic

The (extremely lavish set) was created by a transparency, a fine gauze, finely painted. According to the theatre accounts, it cost 241 ducats, 91 ducats more than Rossini was paid for the music.

Rossini

Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.

The Song of Achilles