Music Quotes

Ben harpe - music is the last true voice of the human spirit....
I call architecture frozen music.
Goethe
When words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Anderson
Ricard - it is in learning music that many youthful hearts...
If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.
Claude Debussy
Making music should not be left to the professionals.
Michelle Shocked
William lyon phelps - the happiest people are those who think the most...
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
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 we march against an enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.
Alfred A. Montapert
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.
Edgar Watson Howe
Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned.
George Bernard Shaw
The earth has music for those who listen.
William Shakespeare
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
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
I write music with an exclamation point.
Richard Wagne
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van Beethoven
There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal.
The National, Paris, 1850
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
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
Marcel Marceau
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Pablo Casals
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
E. M. Cioran
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent.
Victor Hugo
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
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
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)
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
Without music life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.
Sir Thomas Beecham
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 to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
June Masters Bache
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
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
George Jean Nathan
All the sounds of the earth are like music.
Oscar Hammerstein II
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)
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
The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.
Phillips Brooks
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