Music Quotes

Eric anderson - it is only by introducing the young to great...
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent.
Victor Hugo
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
Max heindel - music is the soul of language....
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Mrs. Stowe
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.
Agnes De Mille
Henry david thoreau - when i hear music, i fear no danger. i am...
Those who danced where thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
Angela Mont
Those who hear not the music... think the dancers mad.
Unknown
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Ludwig van Beethoven
I write music with an exclamation point.
Richard Wagne
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
Roald Dahl
Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.
Dave Matthews, VH1 Special: Trey And Dave Go To Africa
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley
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
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.
Nikki Harris
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
Kahlil Gibran
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
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.
Charlie Brown, Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
John Adams
The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.
The Tribune, Berlin, 1871
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
Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned.
George Bernard Shaw
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
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Music... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Leonard Bernstein
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Leonard Bernstein
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
Gerald Early
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.
William Shakespeare
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
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
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