Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

music

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior. 3 other thoughts from Boethius

All music is beautiful. 2 quotes from Billy Strayhorn

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. 52 quotes from George Eliot

I try to use my music to move these people to act. 22 more quotes from Jimi Hendrix

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. 22 quotes from Jimi Hendrix

Music is a safe kind of high. 22 more quotes from Jimi Hendrix

Music is my religion. 22 views from Jimi Hendrix

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. 32 quotes from Martin Luther

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music. 22 other quotes from Jimi Hendrix

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art. 22 wisdom & wit from Jimi Hendrix

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. 32 quotes from Martin Luther

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. 32 more sayings from Martin Luther

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts. 2 quotes from Paul Hindemith

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness. 2 quotes from Corita Kent

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience. 2 quotes from Paul Hindemith

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do. 22 views from Jimi Hendrix

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. 12 quotes from Frank Zappa

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of. 2 wisdom & wit from Gabriel Marcel

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune. 7 wisdom & wit from Phillips Brooks

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. 68 sayings from Samuel Butler

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. 3 more quotes from Noel Coward

Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts. 11 quotes from Rebecca West

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing it makes you feel like an idiot. 11 views from Manuel Puig

If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music. 58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. 68 other views from Samuel Butler

Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. 68 views from Samuel Butler

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love. 3 more quotes from Hector Berlioz

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass. 12 other quotes from Frank Zappa

Music inflames temperament. 14 quotes from Jim Morrison

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously. 23 other quotes from Henry Miller

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. 46 sayings from George Santayana

Music is always a commentary on society. 12 quotes from Frank Zappa

Music is essentially useless, as is life. 46 more quotes from George Santayana

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. 3 quotes from Pablo Casals

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. 58 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Carlyle

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. 12 more sayings from Frank Zappa

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth. 10 sayings from Frank Sinatra

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. 12 more wisdom & wit from Frank Zappa

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only. 23 sayings from Henry Miller

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point. 3 quotes from Maria Callas

When words leave off, music begins. 14 other quotes from Heinrich Heine

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. 12 quotes from Frank Zappa

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. 12 views from Ludwig van Beethoven

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. 3 other quotes from Alvin Ailey

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. 19 more sayings from Elvis Presley

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend. 19 quotes from Elvis Presley

Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. 17 wisdom & wit from Plutarch

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. 10 more quotes from William Congreve

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. 12 quotes from Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is a performance and needs the audience. 3 views from Michael Tippett

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. 9 quotes from Walter Savage Landor

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life. 12 other quotes from Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. 45 more sayings from Thomas Fuller

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. 12 quotes from Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. 12 quotes from Ludwig van Beethoven

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman. 12 other quotes from Ludwig van Beethoven

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.' 19 more quotes from Elvis Presley

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. 15 views from Albert Schweitzer

A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. 21 views from W. H. Auden

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. 12 other wisdom & wit from George Jean Nathan

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. 2 quotes from Andres Segovia

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. 21 other thoughts from W. H. Auden

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. 73 thoughts from Victor Hugo

Music is love in search of a word. 3 other sayings from Sidney Lanier

Music is the best means we have of digesting time. 21 other quotes from W. H. Auden

Music is the melody whose text is the world. 29 wisdom & wit from Arthur Schopenhauer

Music is the universal language of mankind. 26 wisdom & wit from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music my rampart, and my only one. 5 other sayings from Edna St. Vincent Millay

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. 7 quotes from Lawrence Durrell

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. 45 other quotes from John Ruskin

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. 11 wisdom & wit from Bob Marley

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever. 11 more quotes from Bob Marley

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. 21 sayings from W. H. Auden

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. 11 other quotes from Bob Marley

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. 16 quotes from Havelock Ellis

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country. 31 quotes from Gertrude Stein

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. 26 quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education. 9 thoughts from Lawrence Welk

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. 50 other wisdom & wit from Robert Frost

In memory everything seems to happen to music. 17 other wisdom & wit from Tennessee Williams

Love is a friendship set to music. 18 views from Joseph Campbell

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. 2 thoughts from Johann Sebastian Bach

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. 18 other sayings from Jean Paul

Nature's music is never over her silences are pauses, not conclusions. 2 quotes from Mary Webb

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers. 9 quotes from Lawrence Welk

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. 2 quotes from Johann Sebastian Bach

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born. 9 thoughts from Lawrence Welk

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. 7 quotes from Abraham Maslow

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. 21 more thoughts from William Wordsworth

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. 3 more quotes from John James Audubon

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. 21 quotes from William Wordsworth

If music be the food of love, play on. 81 quotes from William Shakespeare

Music fathoms the sky. 25 other thoughts from Charles Baudelaire

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. 18 sayings from Emile M. Cioran

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. 20 quotes from Herbert Spencer

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. 9 quotes from Vladimir Nabokov

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. 81 views from William Shakespeare

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. 41 thoughts from Marcus Aurelius

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master. 6 wisdom & wit from Duke Ellington

Where words fail, music speaks. 3 other wisdom & wit from Hans Christian Andersen

For me, music and life are all about style. 3 quotes from Miles Davis

I write music with an exclamation point! 3 thoughts from Richard Wagner

Music fills the infinite between two souls. 35 views from Rabindranath Tagore

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. 52 other thoughts from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. 24 wisdom & wit from Joseph Addison

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. 24 more sayings from Joseph Addison

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have. 23 quotes from E. W. Howe

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. 22 more views from Robert Browning

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music. 2 other sayings from Sid Vicious

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. 5 other quotes from Igor Stravinsky

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. 58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music. 19 more quotes from Carl Jung

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. 45 more quotes from Aldous Huxley

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. 24 wisdom & wit from Jean Cocteau

Hell is full of musical amateurs. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. 4 more wisdom & wit from Gustav Mahler

The real art of conducting consists in transitions. 4 more quotes from Gustav Mahler

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. 117 more quotes from Henry David Thoreau

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. 3 more thoughts from Walter Pater

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. 4 other views from Louis Armstrong

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. 5 thoughts from Leonard Bernstein

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows. 50 thoughts from Napoleon Bonaparte

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory. 19 thoughts from Percy Bysshe Shelley

Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them. 4 quotes from Louis Armstrong

Please write music like Wagner, only louder. 16 views from Samuel Goldwyn

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. 26 quotes from Jean de la Bruyere

There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind. 4 other wisdom & wit from Louis Armstrong

This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it. 16 views from Samuel Goldwyn

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. 5 more quotes from Leonard Bernstein

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune. 21 wisdom & wit from Miguel de Cervantes

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. 27 other thoughts from Kin Hubbard

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel. 2 more sayings from Buddy Holly

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. 8 sayings from Walter Lippmann

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven. 24 thoughts from Henri Frederic Amiel

Music is the shorthand of emotion. 21 views from Leo Tolstoy

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him. 2 quotes from Charlie Byrd

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. 63 other quotes from Samuel Johnson

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. 60 other thoughts from H. L. Mencken

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. 4 sayings from Truman Capote

We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise. 6 quotes from Freddie Mercury

You are the music while the music lasts. 23 other quotes from T. S. Eliot

Good music is very close to primitive language. 16 quotes from Denis Diderot

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen? 2 thoughts from Peter Tosh

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

In music the passions enjoy themselves. 103 more wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. 29 wisdom & wit from Groucho Marx

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. 8 other wisdom & wit from Ezra Pound

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. 17 more quotes from John Lennon

There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music. 19 quotes from John Keats

Without music, life would be a mistake. 103 wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche