Music Quotes on Creativity & Emotion – Page 3 | GloryQuotes

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.

Stephen Sondheim

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Stephen Leacock

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

Albert J. Nock

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

Satyajit Ray

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

Marilyn vos Savant

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

Emile M. Cioran

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

Honore de Balzac

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Pope John Paul II

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.

Giorgio Moroder

I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.

Nobuo Uematsu

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.

Peter Shaffer

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

Mike Figgis

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

Carter Burwell

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

Sol LeWitt

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

Salman Rushdie

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

Dashiell Hammett

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

Andre Malraux

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

Carter Burwell

It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.

Anne Dudley

In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.

Elliott Carter

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

Rebecca West

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

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

Marcus Aurelius

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

Gottfried Leibniz

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

David Amram

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Albert Schweitzer

I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.

John Eaton

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

Gustav Mahler

Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.

Carter Burwell

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

Igor Stravinsky

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

Harrison Birtwistle

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

George Jean Nathan

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

Anne Stevenson

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zora Neale Hurston

There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.

Richard Morris

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

Neil Innes

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

Robert Browning

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.

Pierre Schaeffer