#music

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#because #classical #classical music #even #folk

My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe. ↗

— Brendan Gleeson

#banjo #been #down #early #far

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#accept #auditioned #because #clue #deaf

I just assumed the world was full of solo percussionists. I couldn't find sticks or music or anything where I was, but that was expected because there was nothing there anyway. And I think that was possibly the greatest asset for me, just not knowing. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#anyway #asset #assumed #because #expected

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#communication #deeper #far #good #interesting

My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularly special for that reason, I enjoyed it very much - I had packed music scores and a practice drum pad, suspecting that I would be completely bored, but actually they remained in my case. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#ago #bali #bored #case #completely

A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it. ↗

— Mikhail Glinka

#composer #creates #music #nation #only

It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#couple #dream #get #like #me

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#cheerful #dignity #effect #either #epochs

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz. ↗

— Alan Vega

#been #classical #classical music #i #jazz