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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
7 other views from Abraham Maslow
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
21 other wisdom & wit from William Wordsworth
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
3 more views from John James Audubon
I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
21 quotes from William Wordsworth
If music be the food of love, play on.
81 other views from William Shakespeare
Music fathoms the sky.
25 views from Charles Baudelaire
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
18 more views from Emile M. Cioran
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
20 quotes from Herbert Spencer
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
9 quotes from Vladimir Nabokov
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
81 quotes from William Shakespeare
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
41 wisdom & wit from Marcus Aurelius
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
6 wisdom & wit from Duke Ellington
Where words fail, music speaks.
3 other quotes from Hans Christian Andersen
For me, music and life are all about style.
3 other quotes from Miles Davis
I write music with an exclamation point!
3 sayings from Richard Wagner
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
35 other quotes from Rabindranath Tagore
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
52 other thoughts from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
24 views from Joseph Addison
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
24 more quotes from Joseph Addison
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
23 sayings from E. W. Howe
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
22 quotes from Robert Browning
You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.
2 views from Sid Vicious
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
5 other thoughts from Igor Stravinsky
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
19 quotes from Carl Jung
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
45 quotes from Aldous Huxley
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
24 other wisdom & wit from Jean Cocteau
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
4 quotes from Gustav Mahler
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
4 other thoughts from Gustav Mahler
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
117 more views from Henry David Thoreau
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
3 views from Walter Pater
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
4 thoughts from Louis Armstrong
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
5 more sayings from Leonard Bernstein
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
50 thoughts from Napoleon Bonaparte
Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
19 sayings from Percy Bysshe Shelley
Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.
4 thoughts from Louis Armstrong
Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
16 sayings from Samuel Goldwyn
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
26 more sayings from Jean de la Bruyere
There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.
4 quotes from Louis Armstrong
This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.
16 more quotes from Samuel Goldwyn
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
5 quotes from Leonard Bernstein
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
21 quotes from Miguel de Cervantes
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
27 quotes from Kin Hubbard
If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.
2 more wisdom & wit from Buddy Holly
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
8 thoughts from Walter Lippmann
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
24 quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
21 quotes from Leo Tolstoy
Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
2 other wisdom & wit from Charlie Byrd
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
63 other wisdom & wit from Samuel Johnson
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
60 quotes from H. L. Mencken
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
4 wisdom & wit from Truman Capote
We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.
6 more thoughts from Freddie Mercury
You are the music while the music lasts.
23 sayings from T. S. Eliot
Good music is very close to primitive language.
16 other wisdom & wit from Denis Diderot
I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?
2 other quotes from Peter Tosh
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
100 other quotes from Oscar Wilde
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
103 other quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
29 sayings from Groucho Marx
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
8 wisdom & wit from Ezra Pound
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
17 views from John Lennon
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
3 other quotes from Boethius
There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.
19 more wisdom & wit from John Keats
Without music, life would be a mistake.
103 more sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche
All music is beautiful.
2 more quotes from Billy Strayhorn
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.
52 quotes from George Eliot
I try to use my music to move these people to act.
22 views from Jimi Hendrix
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
22 more sayings from Jimi Hendrix
Music is a safe kind of high.
22 sayings from Jimi Hendrix
Music is my religion.
22 wisdom & wit from Jimi Hendrix
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
32 other wisdom & wit from Martin Luther
Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
22 views from Jimi Hendrix
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
22 more thoughts from Jimi Hendrix
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
32 sayings from Martin Luther
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
32 more wisdom & wit from Martin Luther
People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
2 more quotes from Paul Hindemith
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
2 views from Corita Kent
There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
2 quotes from Paul Hindemith
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
22 quotes from Jimi Hendrix
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
12 more sayings from Frank Zappa
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
2 views from Gabriel Marcel
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
7 wisdom & wit from Phillips Brooks
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
68 sayings from Samuel Butler
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
3 other sayings from Noel Coward
Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts.
11 more sayings from Rebecca West
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing it makes you feel like an idiot.
11 views from Manuel Puig
If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
58 other sayings from Thomas Carlyle
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
68 quotes from Samuel Butler
Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
68 views from Samuel Butler
Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.
3 other thoughts from Hector Berlioz
Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
12 more quotes from Frank Zappa
Music inflames temperament.
14 other quotes from Jim Morrison
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
23 views from Henry Miller
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
46 more quotes from George Santayana
Music is always a commentary on society.
12 views from Frank Zappa
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
46 views from George Santayana
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
3 other wisdom & wit from Pablo Casals
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
12 other quotes from Frank Zappa
The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.
10 quotes from Frank Sinatra
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
12 quotes from Frank Zappa
We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
23 sayings from Henry Miller
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
3 more quotes from Maria Callas
When words leave off, music begins.
14 more quotes from Heinrich Heine
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
12 wisdom & wit from Frank Zappa
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
12 views from Ludwig van Beethoven
Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
3 quotes from Alvin Ailey
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
19 other views from Elvis Presley
I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
19 other thoughts from Elvis Presley
If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
6 thoughts from Mencius
Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
17 sayings from Plutarch
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
10 more thoughts from William Congreve
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
12 other sayings from Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
3 quotes from Michael Tippett
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
9 quotes from Walter Savage Landor
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
12 wisdom & wit from Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
45 quotes from Thomas Fuller
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
12 more wisdom & wit from Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
12 quotes from Ludwig van Beethoven
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
12 views from Ludwig van Beethoven
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'
19 sayings from Elvis Presley
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
15 other quotes from Albert Schweitzer
A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
21 wisdom & wit from W. H. Auden
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
12 other quotes from George Jean Nathan
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
2 sayings from Andres Segovia
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
21 quotes from W. H. Auden
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
Music is love in search of a word.
3 views from Sidney Lanier
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
21 quotes from W. H. Auden
Music is the melody whose text is the world.
29 more thoughts from Arthur Schopenhauer
Music is the universal language of mankind.
26 sayings from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music my rampart, and my only one.
5 sayings from Edna St. Vincent Millay
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
7 views from Lawrence Durrell
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
45 sayings from John Ruskin
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
11 more sayings from Bob Marley
My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
11 views from Bob Marley
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
21 wisdom & wit from W. H. Auden
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
11 more thoughts from Bob Marley
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
16 other quotes from Havelock Ellis
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
31 other quotes from Gertrude Stein
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
26 views from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
9 more quotes from Lawrence Welk
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
50 thoughts from Robert Frost
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
17 other thoughts from Tennessee Williams
Love is a friendship set to music.
18 wisdom & wit from Joseph Campbell
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
2 quotes from Johann Sebastian Bach
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
18 more sayings from Jean Paul
Nature's music is never over her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
2 views from Mary Webb
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.
9 other quotes from Lawrence Welk
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
2 other quotes from Johann Sebastian Bach
The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
9 other quotes from Lawrence Welk