Music Quotes
Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.Nikki Harris
Those who hear not the music... think the dancers mad.Unknown
Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.Stephen
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 can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.Leonard Bernstein
Those who danced where thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.Angela Mont
I write music with an exclamation point.Richard Wagne
It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit - - Enable them to see visions and dream dreams.Eric Anderson
Music is the shorthand of emotion.Leo Tolstoy
I call architecture frozen music.Goethe
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
Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here.J. K. Rowling
When words fail, music speaks.Hans Christian Anderson
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.Stephen Leacock, 1912
I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.J. S. Bach
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.Shneur Zalman
Music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some...Jacqui We
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.Vladimir Nabokov
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
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.Virgil Thompson
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
We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.Alfred A. Montapert
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
Hell is full of musical amateurs.George Bernard Shaw
Music - - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend.Ludwig van Beethoven
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
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.Jim Davis
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
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
All the sounds of the earth are like music.Oscar Hammerstein II
Those who dance were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.Angela Monet
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Music is the soul of language.Max Heindel
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 Love in search of a word.Sidney Lanie
