Quotes on music
Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
Disraeli, Benjamin
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
Bennett, Arnold
Music is the poetry of the air.
Richter, Jean Paul
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Huxley, Aldous
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Tolstoy, Leo
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
Rattle, Simon
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
Confucius
If I ever die of a heart attack, I hope it will be from playing my stereo too loud.
Anonymous
Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.
Pound, Ezra
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Angelou, Maya
In Hungary all native music is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
Liszt, Franz
The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief.
Sachs, S.A.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Beethoven, Ludwig van
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.
Liszt, Franz
I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.
Liszt, Franz
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides!
Schnabel, Artur
Music is love in search of a word.
Lanier, Sidney
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.
Baker, Richard
Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.
Sainte-Marie, Buffy
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
Allen, Woody