Music Quotes
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.Sir Thomas Beecham
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.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent.Victor Hugo
I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.Erin Cleary
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.Kahlil Gibran
For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.Gustave Flaubert, Charles Bovary
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.Ludwig van Beethoven
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
Music is essentially useless, as life is.George Santayana
Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.June Masters Bache
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.Abraham Maslow
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
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.Albert Schweitze
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.G. K. Chesterton
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1
Hell is full of musical amateurs.George Bernard Shaw
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
Music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some...Jacqui We
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, Conclusion, 1854
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
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.Georges Clemenceau
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.Warren Bennis
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
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
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.Truman Capote
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 faraway.Henry David Thoreau
The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Music - - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend.Ludwig van Beethoven
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
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.William Congreve
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!Friedrich Nietzsche
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Berthald Auerbach
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.William Lyon Phelps
Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.Ludwig van Beethoven
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
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.Frank Zappa
