Music Quotes
Those who dance were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.Angela Monet
Those who danced where thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.Angela Mont
I call architecture frozen music.Goethe
I write music with an exclamation point.Richard Wagne
My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - - In fact, mostly - - At the expense of everything else in my life.Stan Getz
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
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)
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.Ricard
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.Richard Milhous Nixon
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
Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best.Reverend Oliver G. Wilson
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.Isaac Stern
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
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 is a higher revelation than philosophy.Ludwig van Beethoven
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
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.Aaron Copland
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
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
Without music, life would be a mistake.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.Tom Robbins
Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.George Santayana
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
If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.Claude Debussy
Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music.Friedrich von Schelling
Music is the shorthand of emotion.Leo Tolstoy
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.Agnes de Mille
Music is the harmonious voice of creation an echo of the invisible world.Giuseppe Mazzini
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.Igor Stravinsky
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 divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.Pablo Casals
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.Samuel Butle
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
Silence is more musical than any song.Christina Rossetti
