Music Quotes
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.Walter Lippmann
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
The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.The Tribune, Berlin, 1871
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.Ben Harpe
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
When words leave off, music begins.Thomas Carlyle
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.Pablo Casals
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 3
Those who dance were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.Angela Monet
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.Henry Ward Beeche
The earth has music for those who listen.William Shakespeare
Music... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.Leonard Bernstein
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!Friedrich Nietzsche
Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.Nikki Harris
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.Soren Kierkegaard
Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.Charlie Brown, Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz
Hell is full of musical amateurs.George Bernard Shaw
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
Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.Dave Matthews, VH1 Special: Trey And Dave Go To Africa
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.Abraham Maslow
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.Roald Dahl
For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.Gustave Flaubert, Charles Bovary
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.John Erskine
The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.Phillips Brooks
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.Warren Bennis
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.Igor Stravinsky
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.Sir Thomas Beecham
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.Robert Fripp
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.George Jean Nathan
Life without music would be a mistake.Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Without music life would be a mistake.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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.
Music - - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend.Ludwig van Beethoven
Philosophy is the highest music.Plato
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.Plato
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.G. K. Chesterton
