Music Quotes

George santayana - music is essentially useless, as life is but both...
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
Heinrich Heine
John erskine - music is the only language in which you cannot...
Alfred north whitehead - through and through the world is infested with...
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some...
Jacqui We
Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.
Luthe
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
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
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.
Sir Thomas Beecham
Those who dance were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
Angela Monet
Music - - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Only sick music makes money today.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.
J. S. Bach
Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.
Stephen Leacock, 1912
Philosophy is the highest music.
Plato
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
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
Martin Luthe
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.
Agnes De Mille
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - - Can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
Barbara She
Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.
Tom Robbins
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
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Henry Ward Beeche
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
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
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
Truman Capote
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
Kahlil Gibran
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthald Auerbach
Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur - Coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.
Susanne Millen
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
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov
The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
George Santayana
It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.
Ricard
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