Music Quotes

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote

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

Friedrich von Schelling

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

Charlie Brown, Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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

Henry Ward Beeche

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

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

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

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 is the harmonious voice of creation an echo of the invisible world.

Giuseppe Mazzini

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Albert Schweitze

Music is the soul of language.

Max Heindel

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

William Congreve