Music Quotes
Making music should not be left to the professionals.Michelle Shocked
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.Shneur Zalman
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. N. B. This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast.William Congreve
There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal.The National, Paris, 1850
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.Plato
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
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.Jonathan Edwards
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.Edith Sitwell
Life without music would be a mistake.Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.Frank Zappa
Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.Stephen
Prima la musica, poi le parole first the music, then the words.Antonio Salieri, title of an opera
Without music life would be a mistake.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.Leonard Bernstein
Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.George Santayana
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
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.Agnes de Mille
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.Friedrich Nietzsche
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.Kin Hubbard
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
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
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.John Cage
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.
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, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
Music is Love in search of a word.Sidney Lanie
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.Agnes de Mille
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.Woody Allen, Without Feathers
In music the passions enjoy themselves.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.Aretha Franklin
Philosophy is the highest music.Plato
I call architecture frozen music.Goethe
If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.Claude Debussy
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.William Lyon Phelps
I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.J. S. Bach
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.Pablo Casals
