Music Quotes
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.John Erskine
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.Henry David Thoreau
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.William Congreve
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
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
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
Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.H. S. Thompson
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.Sir Thomas Beecham
Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.Charlie Brown, Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz
It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.Ricard
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 tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.S. J. Perelman
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
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 he hears, how ever measured or far away.Henry David Thoreau
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
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.E. M. Cioran
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
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.Martin Luthe
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
Philosophy is the highest music.Plato
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Berthald Auerbach
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.Woody Allen, Without Feathers
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent.Victor Hugo
Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.Ludwig van Beethoven
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
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.William Lyon Phelps
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.Edith Sitwell
The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.Lionel Richie
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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
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
Making music should not be left to the professionals.Michelle Shocked
Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned.George Bernard Shaw
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
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world.Peter Ustinov
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.G. K. Chesterton
