Music
- Anacrusis, also called "upbeat," "pickup note," or simply "pickup"
- Pickup (music technology), an electromagnetic device which detects vibrations from a musical instrument (same as in Technology above)
- Pickup group or pickup band, a musical ensemble brought together for only a few performances
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves.... The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“It was a poetic recreation to watch those distant sails steering for half-fabulous ports, whose very names are a mysterious music to our ears.... It is remarkable that men do not sail the sea with more expectation. Nothing was ever accomplished in a prosaic mood.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Not to sink under being man and wife,
But get some color and music out of life?”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)