Music Quotations
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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| Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. |
| - Maya Angelou |
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| No good opera plot can be sensible:... people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. |
| - W.H. Auden |
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| No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. |
| - W.H. Auden |
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| If I ever die of a heart attack, I hope it will be from playing my stereo too loud. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Music is what feelings sound like. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Play the music, not the instrument. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. |
| - Sir Thomas Beecham |
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| Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. |
| - Sir Thomas Beecham |
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| Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. |
| - Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. |
| - Ludwig van Beethoven |
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| Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. |
| - Ludwig van Beethoven |
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| Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. |
| - Robert Benchley |
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| Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. |
| - Arnold Bennett |
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| The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. |
| - Leonard Bernstein |
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| He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. |
| - Robert Browning |
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| Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. |
| - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton |
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| If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound. |
| - John Cage |
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| 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 |
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| All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! |
| - Thomas Carlyle |
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| He who sings scares away his woes. |
| - Miguel de Cervantes |
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| Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. |
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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| Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. |
| - Confucius |
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| 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.' |
| - Aaron Copland |
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| Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead. |
| - Benjamin Disraeli |
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| What passion cannot music raise and quell! |
| - John Dryden |
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| 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. |
| - George Eliot |
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| There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. |
| - George Eliot |
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| You are the music while the music lasts. |
| - T.S. Eliot |
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| I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| When words leave off, music begins. |
| - Heinrich Heine |
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| The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't got the joke yet. |
| - Oliver Herford |
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| Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. |
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards. |
| - Homer |
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| Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. |
| - Frank Mckinney Hubbard |
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| Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. |
| - Victor Hugo |
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| After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. |
| - Aldous Huxley |
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| Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. |
| - Robert Greene Ingersoll |
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| Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. |
| - Samuel Johnson |
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| Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. |
| - Alphonse de Lamartine |
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| You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. |
| - Oscar Levant |
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| Music is the universal language of mankind. |
| - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| 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 |
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| My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. |
| - Martin Luther |
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| Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. |
| - Groucho Marx |
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| If the King loves music, it is well with the land. |
| - Mencius |
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| Only sick music makes money today. |
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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| Without music life would be a mistake. |
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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| In music the passions enjoy themselves. |
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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| 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. |
| - H.A. Overstreet |
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| Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. |
| - Ezra Pound |
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| Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. |
| - Jean Paul Richter |
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| Truly to sing, that is a different breath. |
| - Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here! |
| - J.K. Rowling |
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| Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. |
| - George Santayana |
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| Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. |
| - Dame Edith Sitwell |
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| My music is best understood by children and animals. |
| - Igor Stravinsky |
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| Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| Music is the shorthand of emotion. |
| - Leo Tolstoy |
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| I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else. |
| - Lily Tomlin |
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| Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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