Music Quotes
Music is essentially useless, as life is.George Santayana
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
Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur - Coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.Susanne Millen
All the sounds of the earth are like music.Oscar Hammerstein II
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Berthald Auerbach
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.Thomas Carlyle
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
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.Albert Schweitze
May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason?James Joseph Sylveste
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".
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
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
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 a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some...Jacqui We
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)
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
I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.Aretha Franklin
It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.Ricard
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
My music is best understood by children and animals.Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.Georges Clemenceau
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.Shneur Zalman
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
I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.Britney Spears
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.Mrs. Stowe
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.Michel de Montaigne
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.Edith Sitwell
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
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
In music the passions enjoy themselves.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
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 be said and on which it is impossile to be silent.Victor Hugo
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)
