Music Quotes
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.Friedrich Nietzsche
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 the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.John Erskine
Making music should not be left to the professionals.Michelle Shocked
The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.The Tribune, Berlin, 1871
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
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.Ben Harpe
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
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
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.George Eliot
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
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
Music is the shorthand of emotion.Leo Tolstoy
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.
Music is the vernacular of the human soul.Geoffrey Latham
Only sick music makes money today.Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.Joseph Addison
Music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some...Jacqui We
We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.Lewis Thomas
It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.Ricard
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - - Can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.Barbara She
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.Walter Lippmann
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!Friedrich Nietzsche
Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.Nikki Harris
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 truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.Agnes de Mille
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
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
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.G. K. Chesterton
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.Marcel Marceau
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.Henry Ward Beeche
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.Britney Spears
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.Pablo Casals
Music... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.Leonard Bernstein
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
Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.George Santayana
