Music Theory – Quotes

My idea is that

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. Edward Elgar

There are more love

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another. Frank Zappa

I took music theory

I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me. Blake Judd

I’m an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don’t really have any music theory, they don’t have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it’s mostly because we don’t know what the rules are. It’s easy for us to go to certain places, so I’m not surprised that a lot of people were amused by … Read more

Which is to say

Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key shifts in music theory and practice…. [Sampladelia is] the sound made by those early-twentieth-century discoveries in particle physics and relativiity theory, the projection of the minds of Einstein, Heisenbery, and Bohr, their fateful … Read more

I don’t know anything

I don’t know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don’t really need to. Amos Lee

It occurred to me

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception. Albert Einstein

I always wanted to

I always wanted to be a musician, 100 percent, my whole life. I went to school, I did music theory, I did voice training and piano lessons, and while I was a decent musician, it didn’t seem like enough for me. I felt like I wanted to make more than just music. Adria Petty

Truly to sing, that

Truly to sing, that is a different breath. Rainer Maria Rilke