Music Quotes
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.Gerald Early
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
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Berthald Auerbach
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.George Jean Nathan
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
Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.Tom Robbins
When words leave off, music begins.Thomas Carlyle
Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best.Reverend Oliver G. Wilson
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
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
Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.Victor Hugo
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.Georges Clemenceau
Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here.J. K. Rowling
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 he hears, how ever measured or far away.Henry David Thoreau
Those who hear not the music... think the dancers mad.Unknown
Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.Nikki Harris
Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.Maurice Druon
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
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.Igor Stravinsky
Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.Charlie Parke
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.Samuel Johnson
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.Martin Luthe
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.Izaak Walton
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
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
We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.Alfred A. Montapert
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.Richard Milhous Nixon
My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.Vladimir Nabokov
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
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.Thomas Carlyle
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.Vladimir Nabokov
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.Bob Marley
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.This Is Spinal Tap
The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.Lionel Richie
May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason?James Joseph Sylveste
