Music Quotes
Music is the vernacular of the human soul.Geoffrey Latham
Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.Ludwig van Beethoven
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.Oliver Wendell Holmes
In music the passions enjoy themselves.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.George Bernard Shaw
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.Leonard Bernstein
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
My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - - In fact, mostly - - At the expense of everything else in my life.Stan Getz
May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason?James Joseph Sylveste
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.Donald E. Knuth
I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.Erin Cleary
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
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
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.Albert Schweitze
Without music, life would be a mistake.Friedrich Nietzsche
We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.Alfred A. Montapert
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.Ludwig van Beethoven
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.Shneur Zalman
I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.Aretha Franklin
Those who hear not the music... think the dancers mad.Unknown
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
Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.Victor Hugo
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
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 to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.Igor Stravinsky
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.Warren Bennis
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.William Lyon Phelps
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
Without music life would be a mistake.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.Robert Fripp
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
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.William Congreve
Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.Dave Matthews, VH1 Special: Trey And Dave Go To Africa
Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.Nikki Harris
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
