Music Quotes

Jacqui we - music is a medicine for many... silence is a...
Music is Love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanie
Lionel richie - the music business was not safe, but it was fun....
Ludwig van beethoven - music - - the one incorporeal entrance into the...
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
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
George Santayana
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.
Plato
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
Kahlil Gibran
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
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
Agnes de Mille
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
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, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1
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
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
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
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
All the sounds of the earth are like music.
Oscar Hammerstein II
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.
Edgar Watson Howe
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Mrs. Stowe
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.
Agnes De Mille
Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.
Frederick the Great
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Henry Ward Beeche
I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.
Britney Spears
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard
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
Music... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Leonard Bernstein
Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.
Victor Hugo
Making music should not be left to the professionals.
Michelle Shocked
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
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
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.
Woody Allen, Without Feathers
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell
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
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
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann