Music Quotes
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
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
Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.Dave Matthews, VH1 Special: Trey And Dave Go To Africa
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
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 the shorthand of emotion.Leo Tolstoy
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.Visions of Gregorian Chants
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal.The National, Paris, 1850
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
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
Music is Love in search of a word.Sidney Lanie
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.William Lyon Phelps
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
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
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
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
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.Aaron Copland
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, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.June Masters Bache
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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)
All the sounds of the earth are like music.Oscar Hammerstein II
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.Michel de Montaigne
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.Frank Zappa
I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.Britney Spears
I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.J. S. Bach
The earth has music for those who listen.William Shakespeare
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
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.Izaak Walton
In music the passions enjoy themselves.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
