Music Quotes

Those who dance were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
Angela Monet
Ludwig van beethoven - music is a higher revelation than philosophy....
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.
Donald E. Knuth
Friedrich wilhelm nietzsche - without music life would be a mistake....
When words leave off, music begins.
Thomas Carlyle
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
J. k. rowling - ah, music. a magic beyond all we do here....
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
Aretha Franklin
Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.
Dave Matthews, VH1 Special: Trey And Dave Go To Africa
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
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
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.
Ludwig van Beethoven
For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
Gustave Flaubert, Charles Bovary
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
Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.
Frederick the Great
Prima la musica, poi le parole first the music, then the words.
Antonio Salieri, title of an opera
Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van Beethoven
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
Life without music would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
I call architecture frozen music.
Goethe
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.
Abraham Maslow
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
Igor Stravinsky
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
Jim Davis
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.
Visions of Gregorian Chants
If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.
Claude Debussy
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.
Edgar Watson Howe
When words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Anderson
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Joseph Addison
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
Agnes de Mille
Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.
Charlie Parke
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Aaron Copland
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Henry Ward Beeche
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
Frank Zappa
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Georges Clemenceau
May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason?
James Joseph Sylveste
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