Music Quotes
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".
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
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.George Jean Nathan
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.
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
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 tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.S. J. Perelman
Music is essentially useless, as life is.George Santayana
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Berthald Auerbach
I write music with an exclamation point.Richard Wagne
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.Igor Stravinsky
Music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some...Jacqui We
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.Marcel Marceau
Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned.George Bernard Shaw
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.Bob Marley
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
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.Kin Hubbard
The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.Phillips Brooks
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
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.Walter Lippmann
Those who danced where thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.Angela Mont
Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music.Friedrich von Schelling
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.Sir Thomas Beecham
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
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
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
I call architecture frozen music.Goethe
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent.Victor Hugo
Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.Ludwig van Beethoven
Life without music would be a mistake.Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.Heinrich Heine
Prima la musica, poi le parole first the music, then the words.Antonio Salieri, title of an opera
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.Agnes de Mille
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
I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.Aretha Franklin
If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.Claude Debussy
