Music Quotes

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)
Gustave flaubert, madame bovary - the human language is like a cracked kettle on...
I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
Aretha Franklin
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
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Robert Fripp
Kin hubbard - classical music is the kind we keep thinking will...
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.
Agnes De Mille
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
Leonard bernstein - music... can name the unnameable and communicate...
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
Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.
H. S. Thompson
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Leonard Bernstein
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 he hears, how ever measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
I write music with an exclamation point.
Richard Wagne
Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur - Coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.
Susanne Millen
When words leave off, music begins.
Thomas Carlyle
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Warren Bennis
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
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
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
George Jean Nathan
All the sounds of the earth are like music.
Oscar Hammerstein II
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
Agnes de Mille
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.
S. J. Perelman
When words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Anderson
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".
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. N. B. This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast.
William Congreve
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.
Shneur Zalman
I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.
Erin Cleary
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
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
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
Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.
Charlie Brown, Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.
Tom Stoppard
The earth has music for those who listen.
William Shakespeare
There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.
Isaac Stern
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.
Sir Thomas Beecham
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Joseph Addison