„Voices were blended and intermingled in a tumultuous swirl around which eddied laughter, shouts, the squeaking of doors and windows, piano and accordion music, rollicking handclaps, a policeman's bark, braying, grunts, coughs of hashish addicts and screams of drunkards, anonymous calls for help, raps of a stick, and singing by individuals and groups.“

„To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.“

—  Henry Miller, libro Tropico del Cancro

Origine: Tropic of Cancer

„I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers…“

—  David Foster Wallace, libro Infinite Jest

Origine: Infinite Jest

„Classifying rock music is an easy way for kids to identify with it. A band like Finch screams and sings, so they classify that with the Used because I scream and sing. But at the same time, we are worlds different. When I was listening to Nirvana, I never got involved in the fact that they were grunge-rock or whatever people were starting to call it at the time. I was raised listening to many different things. But everything has to be put into a category. That's fine with me. The music says enough.“

—  Bert McCracken American musician 1982

G. Brown (January 3, 2003) "Screams catapult Utah's The Used", The Denver Post, The Denver Post Corp., p. FF-02.

„Folk music is always considered a good thing. There is a catch, however: it has to be "real" folk music, anonymous, evoking not an individual but a communal personality, expressive of the soil.“

—  Charles Rosen American pianist and writer on music 1927 - 2012

Origine: The Romantic Generation (1995), Ch. 7 : Chopin: From the Miniature Genre to the Sublime Style

„Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.“

—  Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994

As quoted in M.E.A.T (1991-09).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print

„I want no purely musical developments which are not called for inevitably by the text. In opera there is always too much singing. Music should be as swift and mobile as the words themselves.“

—  Claude Debussy French composer 1862 - 1918

As quoted in Debussy (1989) by Paul Holmes, p. 36
Contesto: Music would take over at the point at which words become powerless, with the one and only object of expressing that which nothing but music could express. For this, I need a text by a poet who, resorting to discreet suggestion rather than full statement, will enable me to graft my dream upon his dream — who will give me plain human beings in a setting belonging to no particular period or country. … Then I do not wish my music to drown the words, nor to delay the course of the action. I want no purely musical developments which are not called for inevitably by the text. In opera there is always too much singing. Music should be as swift and mobile as the words themselves.

„Music is an addiction.“

—  Miles Davis American jazz musician 1926 - 1991

„Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!“

—  Diana Wynne Jones, libro Howl's Moving Castle

Origine: Howl's Moving Castle

„We'll kill the fatted calf tonight, so stick around,
You're gonna hear electric music, solid walls of sound.“

—  Elton John English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist 1947

Bennie and the Jets
Song lyrics, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)

„God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.“

—  Marguerite de Navarre, libro Heptaméron

Fourth Day, Novel XXXVIII (trans. W. K. Kelly)
L'Heptaméron (1558)

„I open the debate… The 2nd verse of New Slaves is the best rap verse of all time…. meaning … OF ALL TIME IN THE HISTORY OF RAP MUSIC, PERIOD“

—  Канье Уэст American rapper, singer and songwriter 1977

Twitter, July 20, 2013

„Faint winds, and far away a fading laughter…
And the rain and over the fields a voice calling…“

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald American novelist and screenwriter 1896 - 1940

Quoted, This Side of Paradise (1920)

„All of us have the privilege of making music that helps and heals — to make music that makes people happier, stronger and kinder. Don't forget: music is God's voice.“

—  Brian Wilson American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer 1942

At the induction ceremony of The Beach Boys into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (January 1988) · Video of acceptance speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZSAQX2uuUY

„All floated upon an evening carrousel, with fitful drifts of music wafting up here and there, and voices calling and murmuring from houses that were whitely haunted by television.“

—  Ray Bradbury, libro The Golden Apples of the Sun

The Wilderness (1952)
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)

„I'm learning to play piano. And also the musical saw.“

—  Rachel Trachtenburg American musician 1993

On learning to play new instruments ( Teen Vogue http://www.slideshowplayers.com/press/Teenvogue_feb07.html)

„No piano, no pupils! Such is the spirit of this country -- Music and Steam!“

—  Théodore Guérin Catholic saint and nun from France 1798 - 1856

First Journal of Travel (1840)
Contesto: They [Sisters of Charity in Frederick] excel in music, which is an indispensable thing in this country, even for the poor. No piano, no pupils! Such is the spirit of this country -- Music and Steam!

„God heard the embattled nations sing and shout“

—  J. C. Squire British poet, writer, historian, and literary editor 1884 - 1958

On the outbreak of the First World War, from Epigrams (1916).
Contesto: God heard the embattled nations sing and shout
"Gott strafe England" and "God save the King!"
God this, God that, and God the other thing –
"Good God!" said God, "I've got my work cut out!"

„sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.“

—  David Foster Wallace, libro Infinite Jest

Origine: Infinite Jest

„A drunkard is like a pig. The poor pig, however, is helpful. The drunk is worse and useless.“

—  Sarvajna Kannada poet, pragmatist and philosopher

Tripadis