Meg White Quotes

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

Music, of almost any kind, always made sense to me.

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting.

Music has a lot in com­mon with math­e­mat­ics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to what­ever you wish.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

For me music is central, so when one's talking about poetry, for the most part Plato's talking primarily about words, where I talk about notes, I talk about tone, I talk about timbre, I talk about rhythms.

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.

I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.

I don't really have a favorite genre. I could listen to a rock song, a metal song, jazz, pop music, whatever. For me, whatever style it is, it always depends on the chord progression, the lyrics, and the melody used.

I love melody more than any other part of music.

I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.

Words are music, really.

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.