Music Quotes

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

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

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Georges Clemenceau

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Those who danced where thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

Angela Mont

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit - - Enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

Eric Anderson

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

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

Sir Thomas Beecham

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Life without music would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

I call architecture frozen music.

Goethe

Those who hear not the music... think the dancers mad.

Unknown

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