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Timothy Mccoul music quotes

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water. Ray Charles

What's the buzz on the street with the kids?

I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

Ace Frehley Timothy L Mccoul

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 Timothy L Mccoul

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I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Herb Alpert Timothy L Mccoul

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

John Lennon

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Music should be your escape.

Missy Elliot Timothy L Mccoul

I don't make music for eyes...

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
Stevie Nicks

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
Ray Charles

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
Charlie Byrd

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I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
Herb Alpert

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Terms:
Form - The structure of a piece of music.

Dynamics - Pertaining to the loudness or softness of a musical composition. Also the symbols in sheet music indicating volume.

Allegro - A direction to play lively and fast.

Energico - A symbol in sheet music a direction to play energetically.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
Gary Wright

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
Charlie Byrd

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Music is love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier

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Terms:
Key - The music's key is determined by which notes are played sharp or flat. The key has a big effect on how the music sounds. Major keys sound 'happy' while minor keys sound 'sad'.

Theme - A melody that appears at the beginning of a piece of music, which is repeated or modified. A large piece of music may have more than one theme (e.g. The Hebrides Overture).

Song cycle - A sequence of songs, perhaps on a single theme, or with texts by one poet, or having continuos narrative.

Scordatura - The retuning of a stringed instrument in order to play notes below the ordinary range of the instrument or to produce an usual tone color.

I think music in itself is healing

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
Billy Joel

Music is my religion.
Jimi Hendrix

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
Jacques Barzun

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You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
Bryan Ferry

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Terms:
Neoclassical - Movement in music where the characteristics are crisp and direct.

Modes - Either of the two octave arrangements in modern music. The modes are either major or minor.

Symphony - Three to four movement orchestral piece, generally in sonata form.

Partial - A harmonic given off by a note when it is played.

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Music should be your escape.

Music should be your escape.
Missy Elliot

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.
Billy Sheehan

Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono

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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu

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Terms:
Minor - One of the two modes of the tonal system. The minor mode can be identified by the dark, melancholic mood.

Nonet - A composition written for nine instruments.

Sextet - A set of six musicians who perform a composition written for six parts.

Atonal - Music that is written and performed without regard to any specific key.

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He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
Billy Wilder

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
Paul Simon

Any good music must be an innovation.
Les Baxter

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Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Robert Browning

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Terms:
Classical - The period of music history which dates from the mid 1700's to mid 1800's. The music was spare and emotionally reserved, especially when compared to Romantic and Boroque music.

Dissonance - Harsh, discordant, and lack of harmony. Also a chord that sounds incomplete until it resolves itself on a harmonious chord.

Chromatic scale - Includes all twelve notes of an octave.

Beat - The unit of musical rhythm.