Music Quotes

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

Igor Stravinsky

Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.

Charlie Parke

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.

June Masters Bache

Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur - Coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.

Susanne Millen

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

Mrs. Stowe

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

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.

Stephen

When words leave off, music begins.

Thomas Carlyle

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Vladimir Nabokov

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Georges Clemenceau

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME.

Shirley MacLaine

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

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Edith Sitwell

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Izaak Walton

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

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.

Henry M. Wriston

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, Conclusion, 1854

I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.

Erin Cleary

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, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

E. M. Cioran

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

Marcel Marceau

Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.

Maurice Druon

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - - Can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.

Barbara She

Music is Love in search of a word.

Sidney Lanie

The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.

Phillips Brooks

I write music with an exclamation point.

Richard Wagne

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

We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.

Alfred A. Montapert

Without music life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Philosophy is the highest music.

Plato

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luthe

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot