Music Quotes
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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears: Their earth is but an echo of the spheres. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with. (Quote by - Kenneth A. Wells)
Music tells no truths. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Beecham)
When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine. (Quote by - Tommy Lee)
Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. (Quote by - Beethoven)
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. (Quote by - Igor Stravinsky)
Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song? (Quote by - Matthew Prior)
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine. (Quote by - Frank Sinatra)
I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500. (Quote by - James Brown)
The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart. (Quote by - Henry Mitchell)
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. (Quote by - H. A. Overstreet)
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
Music is the universal language of mankind. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. (Quote by - Isaac Stern)
Her voice, the music of the spheres, So loud, it deafens mortals' ears; As wise philosophers have thought, And that's the cause we hear it not. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
When words leave off, music begins. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. (Quote by - Robert Fripp)
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain, Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. (Quote by - John Armstrong)
Everything will past, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain. (Quote by - Mikhail Bakunin)
That rich celestial music thrilled the air From hosts on hosts shining ones, who thronged Eastward and westward, making bright the night. (Quote by - Edwin Arnold)
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' (Quote by - Igor Stravinsky)
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
the blackberry bees reorchestrate their chant. (Quote by - Robert Priddy)
I'm saddest when I sing. (Quote by - Thomas Haynes Bayly)
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. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
If music and sweet poetry agree. (Quote by - Richard Barnfield)
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony. (Quote by - Benjamin Britten)
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.(Quote by - Pearl Bailey)
Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. (Quote by - Melvin Maddocks)
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favorite things. (Quote by - Oscar Hammerstein)
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. (Quote by - G K Chesterton)
Music must rank as the highest of the arts -- more than any other, it ministers to human welfare. (Quote by - Herbert Spencer)
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. (Quote by - Elvis Presley)
For discords make the sweetest airs. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Mozart is sweet sunshine. (Quote by - Antonin Dvorak)
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, 'No.' (Quote by - Aaron Copeland)
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. (Quote by - Bible)
Country music is three chords and the truth. (Quote by - Harlan Howard)
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world. (Quote by - Leonard Bernstein)
Life without music would be a mistake. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Beecham)
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Gayly the troubadour Touched his guitar. (Quote by - Thomas Haynes Bayly)
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music. (Quote by - Jonathan Edwards)
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. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear. (Quote by - Billy Gibbons)
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. (Quote by - Lord Erskine)
Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore. (Quote by - Jacques Attali)
All the sounds of the earth are like music. (Quote by - Oscar Hammerstein II)
And hears thy stormy music in the drum! (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. (Quote by - Noel Coward)
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs. (Quote by - Melissa Etheridge)
Without music, life would be a mistake. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. (Quote by - Ludwig Van Beethoven)
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. (Quote by - Aaron Copeland)
I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music. (Quote by - Aretha Franklin)
Wagner's music is better than it sounds. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto. (Quote by -George Gordon Noel Byron)
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at. (Quote by - Horace)
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. (Quote by - Thomas Beecham)
When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me. (Quote by - Aaron Copland)
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. (Quote by - Pat Conroy)
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. (Quote by - Ludwig Van Beethoven)
The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh That filters through the forest, or the gush That swells and sinks amid the branches high,-- 'Tis all the music of the wind, and we Let fancy float on the aeolian breath. (Quote by - John Gardiner Calkins Brainard)
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. (Quote by - Fred Rogers)
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. (Quote by - Howard Dietz)
The high note is not the only thing. (Quote by - Placido Domingo)
Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours. (Quote by - Gioacchino Rossini)
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. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven. (Quote by - Amiel)
The music's pure algebra of enchantment. (Quote by - Samuel Jeake, Jr.)
Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. (Quote by - Red Auerbach)
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. (Quote by - Johann Sebastian Bach)
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. (Quote by - Gottfried Leibniz)
Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? (Quote by - Michael Torke)
It's a marvelous feeling when someone says "I want to do this song of yours" because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after. (Quote by - Mary Chapin Carpenter)
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence. (Quote by - Visions of Gregorian Chants)
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems. (Quote by - Arthur O'shaunessey)
Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. (Quote by - Bryan Ferry)
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. (Quote by - Lawrence Durrell)
True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today. (Quote by - George Gershwin)
Music . . .can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. (Quote by - Leonard Bernstein)
Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast, And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast. (Quote by - Rev. James Bramston)
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. (Quote by - Frank Zappa)
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. (Quote by - Elvis Presley)
Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it. (Quote by - Liam Gallagher)
Music inflames temperament. (Quote by - Jim Morrison)
Music is the art of thinking with sounds. (Quote by - Jules Combarieu)
Work is a four-letter word. (Quote by - Morrissey)
