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Famous Music Quotes

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Henry Ward Beecher

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

Albert Einstein

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Inspirational Music Quotes

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Henry David Thoreau

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

Short Music Quotes

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Richard M. Nixon

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

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

Yahoo Serious

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

More Music Quotes

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Jean de la Bruyere

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Gustav Mahler

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Carter Burwell

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

Mignon McLaughlin

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

Isaac Asimov

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

Carter Burwell

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

Lukas Foss

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

Marilyn Hacker

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.

Roland Joffe

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.

James Weldon Johnson

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

George Santayana

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

Taylor Hackford

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

Matthew Vaughn

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

Stanley Crouch

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Christian Nestell Bovee

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

Alfred Hitchcock

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

Franz Liszt

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

Jean de la Bruyere

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.

Taylor Hackford

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

Michael Tippett

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

Germaine Greer

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

Robert Anton Wilson

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

Tim Bishop

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Logan P. Smith

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Alan Dundes

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

Ken Hill

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Walter Lippmann

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

John Drinkwater

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

Ken Hill

Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

Hilary Rosen

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

Gustav Mahler

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

Ferdinand de Saussure

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

Conrad Hall

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

Marshall McLuhan

Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.

Hilary Rosen

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