Music Quotes
Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.Ludwig van Beethoven
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
When words fail, music speaks.Hans Christian Anderson
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
All the sounds of the earth are like music.Oscar Hammerstein II
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.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.Henry Ward Beeche
My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.Vladimir Nabokov
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.Aaron Copland
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.Edith Sitwell
Music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some...Jacqui We
Hell is full of musical amateurs.George Bernard Shaw
Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large - How large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce - How scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.Alfred North Whitehead
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.Plato
I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.Aretha Franklin
Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.Ludwig van Beethoven
Without music life would be a mistake.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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.
Music - - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend.Ludwig van Beethoven
I write music with an exclamation point.Richard Wagne
I call architecture frozen music.Goethe
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.Heinrich Heine
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.Georges Clemenceau
Making music should not be left to the professionals.Michelle Shocked
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
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.G. K. Chesterton
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.Kahlil Gibran
Philosophy is the highest music.Plato
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
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
Music is the shorthand of emotion.Leo Tolstoy
When words leave off, music begins.Thomas Carlyle
Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.Nikki Harris
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.Bob Marley
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
Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.Frederick the Great
