Best Quotes about Music
Song is the heroics of speech.
Carlyle, Thomas
When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.
Halpern, Steven
Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
Cooke, Alistair
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
Martin Luther
A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.
Carey, Mariah
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
Yoko Ono
I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.
William Shakespeare
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
Plato
Music is the vernacular of the human soul.
Latham, Geoffrey
I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
Starr, Ringo
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
Miller, Henry
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard
I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.
Lennon, John
Music is the key to the female heart.
Seume, Johann G.
A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
Giles, Henry
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
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
Whiteman, Paul
The history of a people is found in its songs.
Jellinek, George
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
G. K. Chesterton
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
Mencken, H. L.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
Johnson, James Weldon
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Cocteau, Jean
Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
Johnson, Samuel
A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
Beecham, Sir Thomas
There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.
Armstrong, Louis
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
John Erskine
Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
Mann, Thomas
They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.
Stevens, Wallace
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
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
Rattle, Simon
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
Cervantes, Miguel De
Music, moody food of us that trade in love.
William Shakespeare
There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.
Wood, Ron
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
Beecham, Sir Thomas
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
Plutarch
Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.
Huneker, James G.
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.
Britten, Benjamin
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 is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Bovee, Christian Nevell
Music is only love looking for words.
Durrell, Lawrence
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
The high note is not the only thing.
Domingo, Placido
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
Pierre Beaumarchais
I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
Luther, Martin
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
Virgil Thomson
There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.
Pound, Ezra
But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
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
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