Music Quotes
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.Agnes de Mille
Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.H. S. Thompson
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.Marcel Marceau
Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.Tom Robbins
Only sick music makes money today.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.George Eliot
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
Prima la musica, poi le parole first the music, then the words.Antonio Salieri, title of an opera
Music is the harmonious voice of creation an echo of the invisible world.Giuseppe Mazzini
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.George Gordon Byron
My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - - In fact, mostly - - At the expense of everything else in my life.Stan Getz
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.Richard Milhous Nixon
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
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is the soul of language.Max Heindel
Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.Victor Hugo
Without music, life would be a mistake.Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.George Santayana
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
Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here.J. K. Rowling
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.William Congreve
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.Agnes de Mille
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.Aaron Copland
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.John Cage
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
Music is the shorthand of emotion.Leo Tolstoy
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.Leonard Bernstein
I write music with an exclamation point.Richard Wagne
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
Those who danced where thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.Angela Mont
Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.Charlie Parke
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.Samuel Johnson
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.Friedrich Nietzsche
