Music Quotes
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
Without music life would be a mistake.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Without music, life would be a mistake.Friedrich Nietzsche
There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.Isaac Stern
Silence is more musical than any song.Christina Rossetti
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.Aaron Copland
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 like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.Jean Baptiste Montegut
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.S. J. Perelman
When words leave off, music begins.Thomas Carlyle
Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.Ludwig van Beethoven
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.Warren Bennis
Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.Maurice Druon
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.Agnes de Mille
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
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
Life without music would be a mistake.Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.E. M. Cioran
Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.H. S. Thompson
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.Martin Luthe
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.Samuel Johnson
Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.Frederick the Great
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.Henry David Thoreau, "Walden".
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.John Erskine
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.Roald Dahl
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
Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.George Santayana
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.Sir Thomas Beecham
Philosophy is the highest music.Plato
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.Joseph Addison
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.Soren Kierkegaard
Music... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.Leonard Bernstein
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
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.Richard Milhous Nixon
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.Ludwig van Beethoven
