Free Music Quotes by Famous Musicians

"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"The woods would be very silent if the only birds that sang were those who sang
best..." - Henry David Thoreau

"music is worthless unless it can make a complete stranger, break down and cry"
~ Frou Frou 'the dumbing down of love'

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy

~Ludwig Von Beethoven

"To me...music exists to elevate us as far as possible above everyday life."

~Gabriel Faure

"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of
music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs, and ideas into my brain. Life
seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."
-George Eliot

"There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience."
- Paul Hindemith

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." -Red Auerbach

"Music is a defining element of character."

~ Plato

"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei
Rachmaninov

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

silent. - Victor Hugo

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live
it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to
music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." - Charlie Parker (American
bandleader, saxophonist and composer. Principal stimulus of the modern jazz
idiom known as bebop. 1920-1955)

"A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on
silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence." - Leopold Stokowski
(British born American conductor known for his influence as a popularizer of
classical music. 1882-1977)

"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of
loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment
and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of
monotony." - Benjamin Britten

“Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick DeLuis

"Music is the vernacular of the soul"

Music is the hardest kind of art. It doesn't hang up on a wall and wait to be stared
at and enjoyed by passersby. It's communication. It's hours and hours being put
into a work of art that may only last, in reality, for a few moments...but if done
well, and truly appreciated, it lasts in our hearts forever. That's art. Speaking with
your heart to the hearts of others. ~Mr. Dan Romano

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the
imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of
order and lends to all that is good and just and beautiful." ~ Plato

Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing

Thanks for all the joy they're bringing
Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty
What would life be?
Without a song or a dance what are we?
So I say thank you for the music
For giving it to me
-ABBA

When words fail, Music speaks. - H.C. Anderson

Bach gave us God's word, Mozart gave us God's laughter, Beethoven gave us
God's fire. God gave us music that we might pray without words.

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

music"-Aldous Huxley

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
-Bob Marley

"Music's what I need to keep my sanity"

- 311
"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's
something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone
loves music."
-Billy Joel

"Music expresses feelings words cannot"

"The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music." -Kurt Vonnegut

"Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable."

Leonard Bernstein

For those about to rock,we salute you. - AC/DC

Rock and roll ain't noise pollution. - AC/DC

Hear my song. People won't you listen now? Sing along.

You don't know what you're missing now.
Any little song that you know
Everything that's small has to grow.
And it has to grow! - Led Zeppelin

"Music is essentially useless - as life is."

"Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!"

~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

"Music is love in search of a voice." -Leo Tolstoy

"Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed
by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of
that harmony." - Isidore of Seville

Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words,
must never cease to be music." - Mozart

"He who writes and composes without feeling spoils both his words and his
music." - Guillaume de Machaut

"Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music."

- PI Tchaikovsky

"True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all
the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with a collective
public...Thus especially the art of tone, developed with such singular diversity in
instrumental music, will realize in the collective artwork its richest potential...For
in its isolation music has formed itself an organ capable of the most
immeasurable expression- the orchestra."
- Wagner

"How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while
writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a purely
lyrical process. It is a musical confession of the soul, which unburdens itself
through sounds just as a lyric poet expresses himself through poetry...As the poet
Heine said, 'Where words leave off, music begins.'" - PI Tchaikovsky

"To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them."
- Nadia Boulanger

"Muzak goes in one ear, and out some other opening."

-Anton Kuert, Austrian- born Canadian pianist

"He played like he was in jail - behind a few bars and couldn't find the key" -
Anonymous

From Mr Holland's Opus:

Vice Principal Wolters: I care about these kids just as much as you do. And if I'm
forced to choose between Mozart and reading and writing and long division, I
choose long division.
Glenn Holland: Well, I guess you can cut the arts as much as you want, Gene.
Sooner or later, these kids aren't going to have anything to read or write about.

"Where words fail, music speaks." - Hans Christian Anderson

"People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music
lasts." - Paul Hindemith

"May music charm me last on earth, and greet me first in heaven."

Tune it or die. -A button

"Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy."

"My music is best understood by children and animals."

~Stravinsky

"Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which
comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."
~Beethoven
"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines
or dates by which bills must be paid"
-Frank Zappa

"If music be the food of love, play on." -William Shakespeare

"What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the
passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that condition, but
Passion, Love, Desire itself, and in such infinitely varied phases as lie in her unique
possession and are foreign and unknown to any other tongue...So...Here's to
Victory, gained by our higher sense over the worthlessness of the vulgar! To Love,
which crowns our courage...To the day, to the night!...And three cheers for
Music..."
- Richard Wagner

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to
music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the
meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'

-Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)

"No music no life"

"Music is the laughter of the soul"

"Music after all is the background score to our lives, not merely surviving in our
memory banks long after so many of our seemingly stronger memories have
faultered, but serving to remind us of who we were at a given moment of our
lives, where we were, what we dreamed of, what we feared, and of course who
we loved."

The most fun happens in music when you're not doing it, when the music plays
itself. Why is this night different than all other nights? Why is music different from
anything else in life? When we let things flow, joy happens."
-Eddie Daniels

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
~Leopold Stokowski

"music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand" - Stevie

Wonder

"My music is the spiritual expression of what I am----My faith, my knowledge, my

being........When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do
something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups....I
want to speak to their souls."
-John Coltrane

"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them."
-Louis Armstrong

"One likes to believe in the freedom of music."

-Neil Peart

"Music is the universal language of mankind." - H.B. Longfellow

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is
not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor, and, at the same time,
with a great, affectionate joy. ~Nadia Boulanger

music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the holes and curl my
back to loneliness. (maya angelou)

As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art
is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society,
disregarding race or religion or wealth or color. What freedom alone can bring is
the liberation of the human mind and a spirit which finds its greatest flowering in
the free society. I see of little more importance to the future of our country and
our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.
- John F. Kennedy

It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life
seem to be there, in the music. Or rather, I should say, when I am making music,
there are no questions and no need for answers. ~Gustav Mahler

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

"The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to
music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what
the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."
~ Aaron Copland

"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more devotedly, more
passionately, more beautifully than ever before."
"All music comes from God."
-- Johnny Cash

"Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music
surgically. "
-- Ray Charles

I don't know anything about music. In my line you

don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley (1935-1977)

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you

have to do is touch the right key at the right
time and the instrument will play itself.
-- J.S. Bach

"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

Music expresses that which cannot be put into

words and that which cannot remain silent.
-- Victor Hugo

You are the music while the music lasts.

-- T. S. Eliot

"Music is therapeutic, it can tame a tiger and soothe a burning soul!" - George
Netterville

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

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. ~Oscar Wilde

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my
back to loneliness. ~Maya Angelou

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
~Berthold Auerbach

Music is love in search of a word. ~Sidney Lanier

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ~Jean Paul Richter

Music is the shorthand of emotion. ~Leo Tolstoy

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
~Benjamin Disraeli

Music is what feelings sound like. ~unknown

Music is the poetry of the air. ~Richter

I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow,
gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places.
Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.
~H.A. Overstreet

Alas for those that never sing,

But die with all their music in them!

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Music is the universal language of mankind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

*Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be
silent. ~Victor Hugo

Music is an outburst of the soul. ~Frederick Delius

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before
speech, and it is above and beyond all words. ~Robert G. Ingersoll

When words leave off, music begins. ~Heinrich Heine

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. ~Leigh Hunt

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

When played properly, a bari sax should sound like a cello... a cello of death. -
Gary Lewis

"The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved by concord of sweet
sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; the motions of his spirit are dull
as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted." -
Shakespeare, from "The Merchant of Venice"

"There is no music in Hell." -Douglas Callister

"band prepares you for life'' richard saucedo

"No Music, No Life. Know Music, Know Life."

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels" - Thomas Carlyle

"Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the
condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring." - Oscar Wilde

"I can't tell you, but I can play it for you."

Epiphone Guitar Co

“Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white—the deepest, roundest sound
you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black—which is the most extreme
tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you’ve
got white, pick it where you’ve got black, and then find all those colors in
between. Get those colors down, and you’ll be able to express almost any
emotion on the guitar.? —Les Paul

"Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?" - Ludwig Von
Beethoven

You can take away music, but pretty soon children will have nothing to read or
write about. ~Mr. Holland's Opus

"Invisible airwaves crackle with life

Bright antennae bristle with the energy
Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free"
-Geddy Lee- in Rush's The Spirit of Radio

"Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture" - Thelonious Monk.

"I . . . stared at the phone. It was hard for me to believe that Igor Stravinsky had a
telephone number, just like the rest of us. God didn't have a phone number. Why
should Stravinsky? Nevertheless, my trembling hand reached out and dialed his
number, which, I noted with astonishment, had the same number of digits as
those of ordinary mortals." -Arnold Steinhardt, Indivisible by Four

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow.
~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing." -Louis Armstrong

“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it
won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music.
But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.?-Charlie Parker.

“Tap your foot (in response to a question from on 60 Minutes regarding what his
music was all about.)-Count Basie

“Women and rhythm-section first!?-Jaco Pastorius

“Man, if you have to ask what it is, you’ll never know.?-Louis Armstrong

“I don’t need words — it’s all in the phrasing.?-Louis Armstrong

“Never play anything the same way twice.?-Louis Armstrong

“I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.?-Miles
Davis

“Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!?-Miles Davis

“Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.?-Miles Davis

“A beat is a moment in the life a groove.?-Wynton Marsalis

“(in reference to Kenny G’s overdubbing of Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful

World") ‘When Kenny G decided that it was appropriate for him to defile the
music of the man (Louis Armstrong) who is probably the greatest jazz musician
that has ever lived by spewing his lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy, out-of-tune,
noodling, wimped out, fucked up playing all over one of the great Louis’ tracks
(even one of his lesser ones), he did something that I would not have imagined
possible’?-Pat Methany

“And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function — he WILL get a piece
of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.?-Pat Methany

"When u march....pretend you have a penny between your cheeks...and I dont

mean your face...."-Frank Hoskins

"I can't listen to Wagner that much. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland." -
Woody Allen

"making music makes life better"

"Music reminds us that we're never too old to cry."

"Chopin is my dawg!" - Alicia Keys

"Music's the medicine of the mind" - John A. Logan

"Without music, life is a journey through a desert" - Pat Conroy

"I've outdone anyone you can name — Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving
Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500" - James Brown

"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's
something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone
loves music." - Billy Joel

“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live
it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to
music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. - Charlie Parker

“For me, music and life are all about style.

“Do not fear mistakes. There are none. - all by Miles Davis
“I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.

"If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing."

“Never ever practice. Always perform.” –Mr. Dave Martin

“If you’re on a team, you’re on the team, but you’re in the band. And in band,
there is no bench.” –Mr. Dave Martin

“In that song each section is like a gem hanging from a Christmas tree.” –Molly
Einhorn (referring to Christmas Festival)

“Look, Miss Worcester Mass, my name’s Cohan, I’ve written half-a-hundred

shows and put on half-a-hundred more and if I say five minutes it could be
anything up to an hour-and-a-half.” –George M! (George)

“If you think you’re too cool for band. You’re wrong.” –Abby Hansen

Music is the silence between the notes.

Music is what feelings sound like.

School curricula that ignore the arts produce "highly educated Barbarians,"
-Playwright Edward Albee

"No one can take away the one thing i depend on... enjoying the music!" ~ Eric
Johnson

"Only love and music are forever" - Phantom of the Opera

“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes
and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.” —
Frederic Chopin

"As long as there is a song in your heart, there will always be hopes and dreams."
- Patrick N. Nagovan

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels." ~Thomas Carlyle

"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing."
~Lord Erskine

"Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our

dream is heaven." ~Amiel

"The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at." ~Horace

Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their
brains." ~John Philip Sousa

"Thank you for the music

the songs I'm singin'.
Thanks for all the joy they're bringin'.
Who can live without it?
I ask in all honesty,
what would life be?
Without a song or a dance
what are we?
So I say thank you for the music
for giving it to me." ~ABBA

"The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it..." ~Don Herold

"Without Music, we could completely destroy the structure of the space time
continuom"
Dr. Emmett Brown
"Music is okay with me." -Jack Swart

"That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more
of you comes out in it." - Kurt Cobain

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Luciano Pavarotti

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

[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet;

this is just truth, plain and simple.
Chuck Sigars

Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.

Richard Strauss

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You
begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a
good deal of experience.
John Cage

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
John Erskine

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the
people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
Martin Luther

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

Henry Louis Mencken

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and
not think of The Lone Ranger.
Dan Rather

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience,
the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that
incredible, magical instrument.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Edith Sitwell

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.

Jules Combarieu

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Only sick music makes money today.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
G. K. Chesterton

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.
It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go
on without effort, when I am filled with music.
George Eliot

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
Ed Gardner

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

George Santayana

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief
in music.
George Eliot

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Groucho Marx
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because
the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
Homer

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of
growing up in the Western world.
Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends
utility to its conditions.
George Santayana

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the
heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.
Jean Baptiste Montegut

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an
honorary Boy Scout.
Melvin Maddocks

Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically,
ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
Fred Rogers

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it
is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

But Bellenden we needs must praise, Who as down the stairs she jumps Sings o'er
the hill and far away, Despising doleful dumps.
Author Unknown
Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with
sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
Joseph Addison

[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment.

Conrad Potter Aiken

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain,
Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.
John Armstrong

That rich celestial music thrilled the air From hosts on hosts shining ones, who
thronged Eastward and westward, making bright the night.
Edwin Arnold

Music tells no truths.

Philip James Bailey

Tom he was a piper's son, He learned to play when he was young; Bug all the tune
that he could play Was "Over the hills and far away."
Author Unknown

Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a
poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that
grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Her voice, the music of the spheres, So loud, it deafens mortals' ears; As wise
philosophers have thought, And that's the cause we hear it not.
Samuel Butler (1)

Everything will past, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will
remain.
Mikhail Bakunin

I'm saddest when I sing.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Rugged the breast that music cannot tame.

John Codrington Bampfylde

If music and sweet poetry agree.

Richard Barnfield
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which
is the same thing nowadays.
Oscar Wilde

Gayly the troubadour Touched his guitar.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

Bible

The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them,
and the sigh That filters through the forest, or the gush That swells and sinks amid
the branches high,-- 'Tis all the music of the wind, and we Let fancy float on the
aeolian breath.
John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears: Their earth is but an echo of the
spheres.
Lord Byron

Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the cornerstone
thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted
for joy?
Bible

God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned
All perfect combinations, and he made Us so that we could hear and understand.
John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast," And therefore proper at a
sheriff's feast.
Rev. James Bramston

And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid
strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever
there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music
of the spheres.
Sir Thomas Browne

For discords make the sweetest airs.

Samuel Butler (1)
Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.
Lord Byron

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
Will Rogers

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was
an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
Michel de Montaigne

Work is a four-letter word.

Morrissey

Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake
again, And all went merry as a marriage bell.
Lord Byron

And hears thy stormy music in the drum!

Thomas Campbell

Life is a song. Love is the music.

Anonymous

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Mark Twain

Music inflames temperament.

Jim Morrison

Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favorite things.
Oscar Hammerstein

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

Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk
for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when
one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
Oscar Wilde

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the
right time and the instrument plays itself.
Johann Sebastian Bach

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

Howard Dietz

When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a
rhythm machine.
Tommy Lee

The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to
rattle the bones and surge the heart.
Henry Mitchell

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
Frank Sinatra

Music by Walter de la Mare

When music sounds, gone is the earth I know,
And all her lovely things even lovelier grow;
Her flowers in vision flame, her forest trees
Lift burdened branches, stilled with ecstasies.

When music sounds, out of the water rise

Naiads whose beauty dims my waking eyes,
Rapt in strange dreams burns each enchanted face,
With solemn echoing stirs their dwelling-place.

When music sounds, all that I was I am

Ere to this haunt of brooding dust I came;
And from Time's woods break into distant song
The swift-winged hours, as I hasten along.

Chopin’s Words
“Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!”
“Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all
difficulties.”

“Sometimes I can only groan, suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!”
“

Famous Quotes
Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827)

“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes
of woman.”

I shall seize Fate by the throat; it shall certainly not bend and crush me
completely.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven, letter to F G Wegeler, 1801

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge
which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven, quoted by Bettina von Arnin, letter to Goethe,
1810

When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion,
and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher
revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven, quoted by Bettina von Arnin, letter to Goethe,
1810

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, it is the wine
of a new procreation, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine
for men and makes them drunk with the spirit.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven, quoted in Marion M Scott, Beethoven (1934)

Muss es sein? Es muss sein! Es muss sein! (Must it be? It must be! It must
be!)
-- Ludwig van Beethoven, comment written on the finale of his String
Quartet in F Major, Op. 135

Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is

over.)
-- Ludwig van Beethoven, on his deathbed, 1827

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will
remain.
-- Michael Bakunin, quoted in Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station
(1940)

A colossus beyond the grasp of most mortals, with his totally

uncompromising power, his unsensual and uningratiating way with music
as with people.
-- Yehudi Menuhin, Unfinished Journey (1976)

He reminds me of a man driving the car with the handbrake on, but
stubbornly refusing to stop, even though there is a strong smell of burning
rubber.
-- Colin Wilson, Brandy of the Damned (1964)