Music Quotes

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

Music - - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

Frank Zappa

Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.

Victor Hugo

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Samuel Johnson

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Bob Marley

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

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

Angela Mont