Unheard Music Quotes

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.

If the club was empty, I sang to the chairs.

Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.

The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.

I've probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.

I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.

Kids don't want to hear the same record. There are a hundred million bands that they could listen to; you want to give them something that they've never heard before.

I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.

I've wanted to do a Christmas song for years but thought every lyric and melody had been written.

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

GRINNING, DUCKING MY HEAD FOR BALANCE, I START TO SPIN WILDLY AS I CAN. THAT IS MY FAVORITE DANCE, BECAUSE IT CONTAINS A SECRET. THE FASTER I TWIRL, THE MORE I AM STILL INSIDE. MY DANCE IS ALL MOTION WITHOUT, ALL SILENCE WITHIN. AS MUCH AS I LOVE TO MAKE MUSIC, IT'S THE UNHEARD MUSIC THAT NEVER DIES. AND SILENCE IS MY REAL DANCE, THOUGH IT NEVER MOVES. IT STANDS ASIDE, MY CHOREOGRAPHER OF GRACE, AND BLESSES EACH FINGER AND TOE.

Well, me and Freaky been knowing each other for a while, and he was always playing crazy music in his room, but he would never release it. He's, like, the most underground rapper I know, and he's crazy talented.

I must have in stock 3000 songs you've never heard.

I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes.

Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.

I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at a theater or subway station, heads touching while they sit on a park bench, and I ache to hear the song that plays between them: The stirring chords of romance's first bloom, the stately airs that whisper between a couple long in love. You can see it in the way they look at each other... you can almost hear it. Almost, but not quite, because the music belongs to them and all you can have of it is a vague echo that rises up from the bittersweet murmur and shuffle of your own memories.

I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

There probably is a lot of music that no one's ever gonna hear. For anyone doing music, just do exactly what it is that makes you want to do it. If you like listening to odd, strange, bizarre noise and that makes you want to create it, do it. Even if everyone around you tells you it's crap or thinks it won't work, someone out there is going to appreciate it.

I'm amazed at how adventurous and how dangerous the music was, and still is. I haven't heard anything like it since. I'm quite surprised, because a lot of the music on there we never heard at the time.

Most of the time when we do a tune, Bad Blake, it's a tune no one's heard of to begin with.

There's such a rich trove of unheard Howard Ashman lyrics that we're so blessed to draw from.

There's a lot of frustration in trying to get music out when you're the only one who hears it, especially if you have something in your head that's not normal.