Music Quotes

Abraham maslow - a musician must make music, an artist must paint,...
Ludwig van beethoven - music, verily, is the mediator between...
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Robert fripp - music is the wine that fills the cup of silence....
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
Agnes de Mille
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
Truman Capote
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
Heinrich Heine
May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason?
James Joseph Sylveste
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
George Santayana
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.
Agnes De Mille
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.
Jean Baptiste Montegut
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.
William Lyon Phelps
Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.
Stephen Leacock, 1912
There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal.
The National, Paris, 1850
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau, "Walden".
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. N. B. This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast.
William Congreve
Music is the vernacular of the human soul.
Geoffrey Latham
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Warren Bennis
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
The earth has music for those who listen.
William Shakespeare
When words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Anderson
Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here.
J. K. Rowling
Prima la musica, poi le parole first the music, then the words.
Antonio Salieri, title of an opera
It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit - - Enable them to see visions and dream dreams.
Eric Anderson
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
John Cage
Music is the soul of language.
Max Heindel
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Making music should not be left to the professionals.
Michelle Shocked
I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
Aretha Franklin
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Joseph Addison
Those who hear not the music... think the dancers mad.
Unknown
Life without music would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.
This Is Spinal Tap
A day out - Of - Doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - - That would be rest.
Roosevelt, Eleano
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
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.
Tom Stoppard
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.
Plato
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
George Gordon Byron