Music Quotes
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent.Victor Hugo
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.George Jean Nathan
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!Friedrich Nietzsche
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.Vladimir Nabokov
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.
Swearing is like any other music... If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...David Gridley, Indiantown
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.Jim Davis
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
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.Roald Dahl
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
Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.Tom Robbins
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.Igor Stravinsky
Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music.Friedrich von Schelling
May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason?James Joseph Sylveste
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
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.Albert Schweitze
Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur - Coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.Susanne Millen
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
Music is Love in search of a word.Sidney Lanie
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.Mrs. Stowe
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
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.Charlie Brown, Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.Ben Harpe
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.Leonard Bernstein
Music is the soul of language.Max Heindel
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.Warren Bennis
If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.Claude Debussy
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.Agnes De Mille
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
Prima la musica, poi le parole first the music, then the words.Antonio Salieri, title of an opera
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
Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.Victor Hugo
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.Visions of Gregorian Chants
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)
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
