Music Quotes

The tribune, berlin, 1871 - the prelude to tristan and isolde sounded as if a...
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 3
Soren kierkegaard - a poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by...
Martin luther king, jr. - if a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he...
Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best.
Reverend Oliver G. Wilson
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Mille
I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.
J. S. Bach
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.
Shneur Zalman
My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov
Music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some...
Jacqui We
My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - - In fact, mostly - - At the expense of everything else in my life.
Stan Getz
I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.
Britney Spears
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.
Edgar Watson Howe
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1
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 faraway.
Henry David Thoreau
Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned.
George Bernard Shaw
Those who dance were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
Angela Monet
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
John Erskine
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
Martin Luthe
Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.
Tom Robbins
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Ludwig van Beethoven
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.
Agnes de Mille
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Richard Milhous Nixon
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large - How large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce - How scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
Alfred North Whitehead
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitze
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.
Sir Thomas Beecham
It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.
Ricard
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.
Plato
All the sounds of the earth are like music.
Oscar Hammerstein II
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language.... We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a common goal of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
George Santayana
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