Quotes About Music

• •  Music can change the world because it can change people 
  •  Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom philosophy , music is a lectrical soil in which the spirit lives thinks and invents. 
  •      "Without music, life would be a mistake."
  •  "The woods would be very silent if the only birds that sang were those who sang best...
  •  "music is worthless unless it can make a complete stranger, break down and cry" 
  •  Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy
  •  "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."
  •  "There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience." 
  •  "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." 
  •  "Music is a defining element of character." 
  •  "Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" 
  •  “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
  •  "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.
  •  "A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence."
  •  "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." 
  •  “Music is an outburst of the soul.
  •  "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. 
  •  "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."
  •  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
  •  When words fail, Music speaks. 
  •  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"-
  •  "One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
  •  "Music's what I need to keep my sanity"
  •  "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."
  •  "Music expresses feelings words cannot"
  •  "The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music." 
  •  "Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable."
  •  Leonard Bernstein
  •  For those about to rock,we salute you. 
  •  Rock and roll ain't noise pollution. 
  •  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! 
  •  "Music is essentially useless 
  •  "Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!"
  •  "Music is love in search of a voice." 
  •  "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." 
  •  Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music." 
  •  "He who writes and composes without feeling spoils both his words and his music." 
  •  "Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music." 
  •  "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." 
  •  "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.'" 
  •  "To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them." -
  •  "Muzak goes in one ear, and out some other opening." 
  •  "He played like he was in jail - behind a few bars and couldn't find the key" 
  •  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." 
  •  "People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts." 
  •  "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." 
  •  "The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it..." 
  •  "Without Music, we could completely destroy the structure of the space time continuom"
  •  "Music is okay with me." 
  "That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it."