Music Quotes
Hell is full of musical amateurs.George Bernard Shaw
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.
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.Marcel Marceau
Only sick music makes money today.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.Isaac Stern
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.Robert Fripp
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.Aaron Copland
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
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
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".
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
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
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.Ludwig van Beethoven
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.Edgar Watson Howe
Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur - Coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.Susanne Millen
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 expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent.Victor Hugo
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 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
Music is the shorthand of emotion.Leo Tolstoy
When words fail, music speaks.Hans Christian Anderson
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.Samuel Butle
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
I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.Britney Spears
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
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned.George Bernard Shaw
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.Ludwig van Beethoven
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
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.E. M. Cioran
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.Sir Thomas Beecham
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.Leonardo Da Vinci
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.Roald Dahl
