Music Quotes

If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.

Claude Debussy

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

Luthe

Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.

This Is Spinal Tap

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.

Agnes De Mille

I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.

Erin Cleary

No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Leonardo Da Vinci

My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Vladimir Nabokov

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

J. S. Bach

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luthe

Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Ludwig van Beethoven