The real art of conducting consists in transitions. – Gustav Mahler
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly… music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees. – Andres Segovia
I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from. – Sarah McLachlan
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. – Pablo Casals
Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable. – Billy Sheehan
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs. – Gary Cherone
My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power. – Paulina Rubio
You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins. – David Coverdale
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created. – Bruce Beresford
Music is a performance and needs the audience. – Michael Tippett
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher – the most important elements are colour, light and shadow. – Toru Takemitsu
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. – Henry David Thoreau
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. – Albert Einstein
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. – Marcus Aurelius
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. – William Shakespeare
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. – Bob Marley
Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there. – Judith Viorst
Music inflames temperament. – Jim Morrison
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. – Eminem
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. – Leonard Bernstein
