Music Quotes
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.Martin Luthe
Hell is full of musical amateurs.George Bernard Shaw
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
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.Henry M. Wriston
Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.Frederick the Great
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language.... We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a common goal of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
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
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.Stephen
Music... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.Leonard Bernstein
If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.Claude Debussy
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.Marcel Marceau
Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.Charlie Brown, Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz
My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.Vladimir Nabokov
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
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
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
The earth has music for those who listen.William Shakespeare
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
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
Those who danced where thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.Angela Mont
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
Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.Charlie Parke
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.Walter Lippmann
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
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".
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.Samuel Johnson
I call architecture frozen music.Goethe
Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.June Masters Bache
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 and say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.Martin Luther King Jr.
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
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.William Lyon Phelps
Prima la musica, poi le parole first the music, then the words.Antonio Salieri, title of an opera
All the sounds of the earth are like music.Oscar Hammerstein II
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME.Shirley MacLaine
Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here.J. K. Rowling
