Music Quotes

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

Pablo Casals

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

Those who danced where thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

Angela Mont

Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.

Nikki Harris

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Albert Schweitze

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

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

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

Jonathan Edwards

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

Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

J. S. Bach

I write music with an exclamation point.

Richard Wagne

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