Music Quotes

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.

Henry M. Wriston

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Albert Schweitze

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

Georges Clemenceau

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

Michelle Shocked

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

Vladimir Nabokov

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

John Adams

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

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

I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.

Gerald Early

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.

Edgar Watson Howe

Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large - How large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce - How scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

Alfred North Whitehead

Swearing is like any other music... If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...

David Gridley, Indiantown

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

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

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

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

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 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

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.

Agnes de Mille

Music is the soul of language.

Max Heindel

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

Music is the harmonious voice of creation an echo of the invisible world.

Giuseppe Mazzini

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

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here.

J. K. Rowling

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Joseph Addison

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Richard Milhous Nixon

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

When words fail, music speaks.

Hans Christian Anderson

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 3

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle

Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.

Stephen

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.

Charlie Brown, Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz

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

Ludwig van Beethoven

Without music life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Samuel Johnson