#music

I've always felt that distant train whistles heard in the dead of night are the universe's way of letting us know the best days are neither ahead nor behind us...they're happening right now, cradled in the palms of our hands. But that doesn't change the fact that the whiskey, weed, and romance eventually runs out and the night will soon turn to day. ↗

— Dave Matthes

#daydreaming #death #history #innocence #love

I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don't fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again. ↗

— Robert Walser

#melancholy #music #pain #death

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#did #different #different kinds #i #just

I've grown to really love musicals, you know? ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#i #know #love #musicals #really

I basically taught myself how to sing and play by copying records, and that's just how it was for me. I know that's true for a lot of budding musicians out there - that's the thing that gets them inspired, is trying to learn their favorite songs. I think it's a great way to teach yourself. ↗

— Susanna Hoffs

#budding #copying #favorite #gets #great

I can't express how wonderful it is to get feedback when you've been sort of in a bubble working on something and then you release it to the world and hope for the best. It's like the birth of a musical baby. ↗

— Susanna Hoffs

#been #best #birth #bubble #express

I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true. ↗

— Susanna Hoffs

#because #embarrassing #even #i #music

In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun. ↗

— Susanna Hoffs

#control #dance #expression #felt #free

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#color #counterpoint #creating #differentiate #formal

I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#cello #grammar #grammar school #his #horror