Music Quotes
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.Vladimir Nabokov
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
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
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!Friedrich Nietzsche
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 3
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
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
Music is the shorthand of emotion.Leo Tolstoy
Those who dance were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.Angela Monet
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
Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.Charlie Parke
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
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.Soren Kierkegaard
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.Virgil Thompson
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 is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.John Erskine
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.Martin Luthe
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
My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.Vladimir Nabokov
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.Jean Baptiste Montegut
Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.Stephen
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
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.Henry Ward Beeche
Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music.Friedrich von Schelling
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.Agnes de Mille
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.Samuel Johnson
Philosophy is the highest music.Plato
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
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)
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.Michel de Montaigne
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
Music is the harmonious voice of creation an echo of the invisible world.Giuseppe Mazzini
The earth has music for those who listen.William Shakespeare
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
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
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.Marcel Marceau
