Quotes
Quotes about Music
Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.
After silence, music comes closest to expressing the inexpressible.
If you're not afraid to face the music you may some day lead
After silence, music comes closest to expressing the inexpressible.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.
If you're not afraid to face the music you may some day lead the band.
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.
If you're not afraid to face the music you may some day lead the band.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
Talking is like playing the harp; there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.
If a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider.
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.
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
I call architecture frozen music.
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future".
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the spaces between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
