Music Quotes
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.G. K. Chesterton
I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.J. S. Bach
Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur - Coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.Susanne Millen
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
I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.Erin Cleary
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.Frank Zappa
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.Ludwig van Beethoven
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 far away.Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Conclusion, 1854
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.Bob Marley
Only sick music makes money today.Friedrich Nietzsche
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams
Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.Charlie Parke
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
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.Samuel Johnson
Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.Nikki Harris
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.Albert Schweitze
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.Kahlil Gibran
Music is the soul of language.Max Heindel
Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.Stephen
Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here.J. K. Rowling
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.Warren Bennis
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.Jim Davis
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
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.Heinrich Heine
It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit - - Enable them to see visions and dream dreams.Eric Anderson
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
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? 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 far away.Henry David Thoreau, "Walden".
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.Robert Fripp
Music is the harmonious voice of creation an echo of the invisible world.Giuseppe Mazzini
Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large - How large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce - How scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.Alfred North Whitehead
Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.George Santayana
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.Jean Baptiste Montegut
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
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.Samuel Butle
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
Those who hear not the music... think the dancers mad.Unknown
