Quotes
Quotes about Music
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
When words leave off, music begins.
Music must rank as the highest of the artsâmore than any other, it ministers to human welfare.
Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours.
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
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.
Country music is three chords and the truth.
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.
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.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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.
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Life without music would be a mistake.
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
