Music Quotes

Roosevelt, eleano - a day out - of - doors, someone i loved to talk...
Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music.
Friedrich von Schelling
William congreve, the mourning bride, act 1 scene 1 - music has charms to soothe the savage breast to...
Marcel marceau - music and silence combine strongly because music...
Music is the soul of language.
Max Heindel
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Leonard Bernstein
Those who hear not the music... think the dancers mad.
Unknown
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
Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.
Tom Robbins
All the sounds of the earth are like music.
Oscar Hammerstein II
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
My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.
George Bernard Shaw
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
Kahlil Gibran
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.
Agnes De Mille
Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.
Luthe
Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.
Stephen
Music... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Leonard Bernstein
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.
Plato
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
Samuel Butle
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
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley
We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
Lewis Thomas
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
Michel de Montaigne
Only sick music makes money today.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel Johnson
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
Ben Harpe
Music is Love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanie
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.
Britney Spears
Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
George Santayana
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
George Jean Nathan
Music is the harmonious voice of creation an echo of the invisible world.
Giuseppe Mazzini
There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.
Isaac Stern
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
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
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931