Music Quotes

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961

Music... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Leonard Bernstein

When words leave off, music begins.

Thomas Carlyle

Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

Only sick music makes money today.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.

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

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

Mrs. Stowe

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

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luthe

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.

Ricard

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Roald Dahl

Philosophy is the highest music.

Plato

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Henry David Thoreau

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

E. M. Cioran

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Vladimir Nabokov

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Edith Sitwell

Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.

Nikki Harris

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.

Frederick the Great

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

Those who dance were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

Angela Monet

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

Tom Robbins

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

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

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

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.

Soren Kierkegaard

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

Ben Harpe

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

Susanne Millen

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

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

Ludwig van Beethoven

May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason?

James Joseph Sylveste

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Geoffrey Latham

We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.

Alfred A. Montapert

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

Victor Hugo