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Risk nothing, get nothing. If you wanna be famous, then it’s OK if the music is fake, because fame isn’t real.
Josh Hommeborn 1973“Queens of the Stone Age: Josh Homme comes back from the brink” The Guardian (June 1, 2013)
- Fame
I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.
Courtney Loveborn 1964On women playing rock music, quoted in 1991, from This is the Sound: The Best of Alternative Rock (2008), p. 71
- Women
There’s always been an emotion in my voice because it reached back to the life I was living. Where there were tears on stage, it wasn’t Hollywood, it was real.
Tina Turner1939–2023My Love Story (2018/19), Motto
- Emotion
Will you walk a little faster?” said a whiting to a snail,
“There’s a porpoise close behind us, and he’s treading on my tail.
See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!
They are waiting on the shingle⁠—will you come and join the dance?
Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance?
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter XIn context
- Animals
- Dancing
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter IIIIn context
- Dancing
- Love
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.
Edith Wharton1862–1937The Age of Innocence (1920), Book I, Chapter IIn context
- Comedy
I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–1885), First Part, VIIIn context
- Dancing
- God
Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Tempest (c. 1611), Act III, Scene II, spoken by CalibanIn context
- Nature
Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And turn his merry note
Unto the sweet bird’s throat,
Come hither, come hither, come hither!
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), Act II, Scene V, spoken by AmiensIn context
- Nature
Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don’t listen, and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Comedy
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul
Plato429–349 BCThe Republic (c. 375 BC), Book IIIIn context
- Education
I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), Chapter IIIn context
- Slavery
I listen’d till I had my fill:
And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.
William Wordsworth1770–1850The Solitary Reaper (1807)In context
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822To a Skylark (1820)In context
- Poetry
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory⁠—
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822Music, When Soft Voices Die (1821)In context
- Love