Music Quotes

Those who dance were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

Angela Monet

Music is Love in search of a word.

Sidney Lanie

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

Giuseppe Mazzini

A day out - Of - Doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - - That would be rest.

Roosevelt, Eleano

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Joseph Addison

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

Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur - Coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.

Susanne Millen

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.

Ricard

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

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961

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

Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

Mrs. Stowe

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

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

Vladimir Nabokov

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Berthald Auerbach

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

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

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

Marcel Marceau

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

Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

Tom Robbins

I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

Britney Spears

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

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 a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.

Plato

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 and say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King Jr.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Edith Sitwell

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

Dave Matthews, VH1 Special: Trey And Dave Go To Africa

Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

Friedrich von Schelling

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