Quotes
Quotes about Music
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.
Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
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.'
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
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.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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.
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.
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.
Music . . .can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. â¢Robert Fripp 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.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
All the sounds of the earth are like music.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
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.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune.
I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
