Music Quotes

Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

Britney Spears

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.

This Is Spinal Tap

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Berthald Auerbach

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)

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Henry Ward Beeche

Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.

Victor Hugo

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Geoffrey Latham

Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur - Coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.

Susanne Millen

Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

Friedrich von Schelling

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Kahlil Gibran

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

Mrs. Stowe

The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.

The Tribune, Berlin, 1871

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

Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

Tom Robbins

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.

Agnes de Mille

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.

Ludwig van Beethoven

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

Jonathan Edwards

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)

I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.

Erin Cleary

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

Heinrich Heine

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.

Charlie Brown, Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz

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

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

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.

Agnes De Mille

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.

Plato