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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.
- Newman, Ernest
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Best Quotes about Music

1.
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.
Carpenter, Mary Chapin

2.
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.
Stravinsky, Igor

3.
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.
Hoffer, Eric

4.
You are the music while the music lasts.
Eliot, T. S.

5.
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
Auden, W. H.

6.
I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
Starr, Ringo

7.
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.
Szell, George

8.
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
Nietzsche, Friedrich

9.
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Carlyle, Thomas

10.
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
George Santayana

11.
Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.
Attali, Jacques

12.
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.
Steiner, George

13.
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
Pierre Beaumarchais

14.
Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
Cooke, Alistair

15.
Mozart is sweet sunshine.
Dvorak, Antonin

16.
To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?
William Shakespeare

17.
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
Beecham, Sir Thomas

18.
We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.
Marcus, Greil

19.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
John Erskine

20.
Music is the vernacular of the human soul.
Latham, Geoffrey

21.
I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
Franklin, Aretha

22.
I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.
Raitt, Bonnie

23.
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
Mencken, H. L.

24.
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
Woody Allen

25.
Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.
Levi-Strauss, Claude

26.
[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.
Chuck Sigars

27.
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Edgar Wilson Nye

28.
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
Stendhal, Henri B.

29.
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.
Levi-Strauss, Claude

30.
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Cosby, Bill

31.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Robert Fripp

32.
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
Tate, Jeffrey

33.
I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.
Nixon, Richard M.

34.
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
West, Rebecca

35.
A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
Giles, Henry

36.
Music should never be harmless.
Robertson, Robbie

37.
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
Keats, John

38.
It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Johnson, Samuel

39.
It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.
Richardson, Kevin

40.
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Huxley, Aldous

41.
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
Cervantes, Miguel De

42.
Music causes us to think eloquently.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
Sir Thomas Beecham

44.
Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
Wordsworth, William

45.
The history of a people is found in its songs.
Jellinek, George

46.
People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.
Lutoslawski, Witold

47.
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
Schumann, Robert

48.
Song is the heroics of speech.
Carlyle, Thomas

49.
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.
Cage, John

50.
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
Wilson, Colin


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