Music Quotes

Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean;
Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms
of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell
on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs
shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they
both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does
us good. Our love is due to both....Henri Frederic Amiel.

Music washes away from the soul the
dust of everyday life....Red Auerbach.

Without music, life would be an error. The German
imagines even God singing songs....Friedrich Nietzsche.

I think music in itself is healing.
It's an explosive expression of humanity.
It's something we are all touched by.
No matter what culture we're from,
everyone loves music....Billy Joel.

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

Music is the key to the
female heart....Johann G. Seume.

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations
of the people and the time. My people are Americans
and my time is today....George Gershwin.

It was called the Backstreet Market, and it
was just like a local hangout. That was
where the kids would drive their cars, hang
out with their convertibles and listen to
music. That's how we got "Backstreet." We
put "Boys" on it, because no matter how old
we get, we'll always be boys....Kevin Richardson.

The effects of good music are not just because it's
new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more
familiar we are with it....Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.

Just as certain selections of music
will nourish your physical body and
your emotional layer, so other musical
works will bring greater health to
your mind....Hal A. Lingerman.

If you can walk you can dance.
If you can talk you can sing....Zimbabwe Proverb.

Just as there can be no music without learning;
no education is complete without music....Unknown.

I've always felt rock and roll was very,
very wholesome music....Aretha Franklin.

Without Elvis, none of us could
have made it....Buddy Holly.

The history of a people is found
in its songs....George Jellinek.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your
wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your
horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music.
But, man, there's no boundary line to art....Charlie Parker.

Do not neglect your music. It will be
a companion which will sweeten many
hours of life to you....Thomas Jefferson.

It had never occurred to me before that music
and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could
say music is another way of thinking, or maybe
thinking is another kind of music....Ursula K. Leguin.

In music one must think with the heart
and feel with the brain....George Szell.

"And these....these phrases you keep
speaking in. They don't make any sense."
"Ah, you seek meaning?"
"Yes."
"Then listen to the music,
not the song"....Kosh and Talia Winters.

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf,
in an act of kindness....I see what people call
God in all these things....Pablo Casals.

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften
rocks, or bend a knotted oak....William Congreve.

Music is the universal language of mankind -- poetry their
universal pastime and delight....Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot
arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce
effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by
signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and
feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means
of sounds, for I am a musician....Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have
to do is touch the right key at the right time and the
instrument will play itself....Johann Sebastian Bach.

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

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

Of all earthly music, that which reaches farthest into heaven
is the beating of a truly loving heart....Henry Ward Beecher.

The sexual embrace can only be compared 
with music and with prayer....Havelock Ellis.

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