Music Quotes

Antonio salieri, title of an opera - prima la musica, poi le parole first the music,...
Martin luther king jr. - if a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he...
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
J. k. rowling - ah, music. a magic beyond all we do here....
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.
Victor Hugo
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.
Agnes de Mille
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
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
Frank Zappa
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
Roald Dahl
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
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.
Charlie Parke
Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.
Tom Robbins
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language.... We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a common goal of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
The earth has music for those who listen.
William Shakespeare
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
Kahlil Gibran
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel Johnson
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.
Edgar Watson Howe
The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.
Lionel Richie
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life without music would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
When words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Anderson
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitze
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played 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.
Music is the vernacular of the human soul.
Geoffrey Latham
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
Agnes de Mille
Without music life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.
Erin Cleary
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle
Music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some...
Jacqui We
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
George Jean Nathan
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
May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason?
James Joseph Sylveste
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.
Dave Matthews, VH1 Special: Trey And Dave Go To Africa
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
Samuel Butle
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
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 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