How come you can hear a chord, and then another chord, and then your heart breaks open? —Anne Lamott More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith. —Ann Patchett More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no music like that music, no drama like the drama of the saints rejoicing, the sinners moaning, the tambourines racing, and all those voices coming together and crying holy unto the Lord. . . . I have never seen anything to equal the fire and excitement that sometimes, without warning, fill a church, causing the church, as Leadbelly and so many others have testified, to "rock. —James Baldwin More about this quote Tags: sin music church excitement drama rock and roll Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something, we'd all love one another. —Frank Zappa More about this quote Tags: love power change songs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events. —Leonard Cohen More about this quote Tags: love music appreciation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. —Angela Monet More about this quote Tags: insanity music experience joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Aldous Huxley suggested that the psalm-singing of Christian and Buddhist monks, the chanting of medicine men and shamans, and the shouting and screaming of revivalists for hours on end bring about an increase in the carbon-dioxide level, triggering an altered state. —James Alcock More about this quote Tags: religion devotion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everything too stupid to be said is sung. —Voltaire More about this quote Tags: music stupidity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I wrote a song, but I can't read music, so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio, and I say, "I think I might have written that. —Steven Wright More about this quote Tags: music listening radio songs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five. —From a 1975 interview with Mick Jagger, who still performs the song at age sixty-seven More about this quote Tags: satisfaction death old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music. —Billie Holiday More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn. —Madame de Stael More about this quote Tags: life religion struggle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Qabalists believed that the universe was created from sound. Thus by reciting sacred sounds, changes or transformations of matter could take place. Healing could simply consist of reinvoking those sacred sounds in the body. . . . Perhaps this is what the shamans do when they chant. —Fred Alan Wolf More about this quote Tags: change universe transformation sound healing chanting shamanism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Jews and blacks come from the same history. . . . We've just expressed our suffering differently as people. Blacks developed the blues. Jews complain; we just never thought of putting it to music. —Jon Stewart More about this quote Tags: history suffering complaining jewishness blackness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart, and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears. —Frederick Douglass More about this quote Tags: history heart sorrow tears unhappiness slavery songs relief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email