Music Quotes

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.

Tom Stoppard

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Joseph Addison

A day out - Of - Doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - - That would be rest.

Roosevelt, Eleano

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

Aaron Copland

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Warren Bennis

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

Albert Schweitze

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 faraway.

Henry David Thoreau

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 essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana