Music Quotes

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!

Friedrich Nietzsche

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

Dave Matthews, VH1 Special: Trey And Dave Go To Africa

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 3

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

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Giuseppe Mazzini

Only sick music makes money today.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.

Charlie Parke

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

John Adams

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

For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Gustave Flaubert, Charles Bovary