Quotes on music
Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
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Arnold Bennett Quotes
Music is the poetry of the air.
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Jean Paul Richter Quotes
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Aldous Huxley Quotes
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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Leo Tolstoy Quotes
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
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Frank McKinney Hubbard Quotes
What we provide is an atmosphere... of orchestrated pulse which works on people in a subliminal way. Under its influence I've seen shy debs and severe dowagers kick off their shoes and raise some wholesome hell.
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Meyer Davis Quotes
Without music life would be a mistake.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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Robert Benchley Quotes
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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Walter Lippmann Quotes
My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.
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Edward Elgar Quotes
Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?
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Michael Torke Quotes
An artist, in giving a concert, should not demand an entrance fee but should ask the public to pay, just before leaving as much as they like. From the sum he would be able to judge what the world thinks of him - and we would have fewer mediocre concerts.
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Kit Coleman Quotes
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
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Simon Rattle Quotes
He who sings scares away his woes.
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Cervantes Quotes
Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.
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Henri Rabaud Quotes
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
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Confucius Quotes
It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.
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Victor de LaPrade Quotes
If I ever die of a heart attack, I hope it will be from playing my stereo too loud.
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Anonymous Quotes
Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.
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Ezra Pound Quotes
Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.
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Helmut Walcha Quotes
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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Maya Angelou Quotes
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
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Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
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William F. Buckley Quotes
The pause is as important as the note.
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Truman Fisher Quotes
Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
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Aaron Copland Quotes
In Hungary all native music is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
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Franz Liszt Quotes
Music is an outburst of the soul.
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Frederick Delius Quotes
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
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Benny Green Quotes
The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief.
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S.A. Sachs Quotes
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
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Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes
If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
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John Cage Quotes
A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?
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Charles Ives Quotes
When words leave off, music begins.
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Heinrich Heine Quotes
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
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Franz Liszt Quotes
I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.
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Franz Liszt Quotes
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides!
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Artur Schnabel Quotes
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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Berthold Auerbach Quotes
He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.
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Robert Browning Quotes
Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven.
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Lawrence Duncan Quotes
Music's the medicine of the mind.
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John A. Logan Quotes
Music is love in search of a word.
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Sidney Lanier Quotes
The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life… the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril.
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Richard Baker Quotes
Country music is three chords and the truth.
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Harlan Howard Quotes
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie Quotes
As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.
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Franz Liszt Quotes
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
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Woody Allen Quotes
When I glimpse the backs of women's knees I seem to hear the first movement of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony.
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Author Unknown Quotes