Music Quotes

The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.
Donald E. Knuth
Abraham maslow - a musician must make music, an artist must paint,...
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Leonard Bernstein
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw
Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music.
Friedrich von Schelling
Henry mille - develop interest in life as you see it in people,...
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau
The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.
The Tribune, Berlin, 1871
Ralph waldo emerson - what omniscience has music! so absolutely...
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Aaron Copland
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
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell
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 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
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle
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
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
Truman Capote
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 3
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy is the highest music.
Plato
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
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
Martin Luthe
Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.
Frederick the Great
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Mrs. Stowe
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
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - - Can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
Barbara She
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
May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason?
James Joseph Sylveste
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world.
Peter Ustinov
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard
When words leave off, music begins.
Thomas Carlyle
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Joseph Addison
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
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
John Erskine
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.
Soren Kierkegaard
Prima la musica, poi le parole first the music, then the words.
Antonio Salieri, title of an opera
Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.
Victor Hugo
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
George Santayana