Music Quotes

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.

Thinking of a series of dreamsWhere the time and the tempo flyAnd there's no exit in any direction'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes

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

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself

For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really sad.

There must be some kind of way out of here, ' said the joker to the thief...

Goth was sort of the melancholy cousin of punk that says: there's a lot of evil in this world, there's a lot of very mean spirited people and that makes me sad.

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.

When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.

Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?I didn't think it polite to listen, sir.

Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?

All my ways of being are musical and mysterious.Yet I embrace you openly.Ripe with expectancy.

Music heals all forms of misery

I'm sitting here doing nothing but ageing while my guitar gently weeps

Life without playing music is inconceivable for me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music, I get most joy in life out of music.

He has only heard what I felt.

and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground – because I am afraid –

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist]

The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, because he drinks beer, because he enjoys music and because he likes to dance.

My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive.

I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard.

Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.

The man who has many answersis often foundin the theaters of informationwhere he offers, graciously, his deep findings.While the man who has only questions, to comfort himself, makes music.

I like your opera - I think I will set it to music

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

Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.

The devil does not stay where music is.

Light quirks of music broken and uneven make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven.

Richard Wagner a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

Opera in English is in the main just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

Had I learned to fiddle I should have done nothing else.

Soprano basso even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.

Light quirks of music broken and uneven Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

The man that hath no music in himself Nor is no moved with concord of sweet sounds Is fit for treasons stratagems and spoils.

Love is a friendship set to music.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

To the best of my knowledge, none of the Beatles can read music.

I design music I don't produce it.

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.

Music is the fastest motivator in the world.

Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.

Music is the only language which can be understood by everyone—even a tree can understand music.

Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do.

And there were the warm spaces in the music I loved the most, openings through which I could enter and lay my burdens down. There, behind the groove and riding on the melody, I was complete and free.

Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life.