Music Quotes
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.Joseph Addison
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.Martin Luther King Jr.
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
Making music should not be left to the professionals.Michelle Shocked
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.S. J. Perelman
Music is the vernacular of the human soul.Geoffrey Latham
Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.June Masters Bache
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.Martin Luther King, Jr.
I call architecture frozen music.Goethe
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
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
Swearing is like any other music... If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...David Gridley, Indiantown
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
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.Henry M. Wriston
Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned.George Bernard Shaw
Those who hear not the music... think the dancers mad.Unknown
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.Bob Marley
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
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.Henry David Thoreau
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.Ludwig van Beethoven
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
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.Gerald Early
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
We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.Alfred A. Montapert
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
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.Heinrich Heine
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.Ralph Waldo Emerson
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.Vladimir Nabokov
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
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.William Shakespeare
There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.Isaac Stern
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. N. B. This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast.William Congreve
Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music.Friedrich von Schelling
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
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.Kahlil Gibran
