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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 quotes 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 quotes from William Wordsworth
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
3 quotes 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 views from William Wordsworth
If music be the food of love, play on.
81 more wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare
Music fathoms the sky.
25 more quotes from Charles Baudelaire
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
18 sayings 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 thoughts 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 thoughts from Marcus Aurelius
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
6 other views from Duke Ellington
Where words fail, music speaks.
3 quotes from Hans Christian Andersen
For me, music and life are all about style.
3 sayings from Miles Davis
I write music with an exclamation point!
3 quotes from Richard Wagner
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
35 more quotes from Rabindranath Tagore
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
24 sayings from Joseph Addison
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
24 other sayings from Joseph Addison
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
23 quotes from E. W. Howe
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
22 thoughts from Robert Browning
You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.
2 quotes from Sid Vicious
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
5 other quotes from Igor Stravinsky
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
58 views from Henry Ward Beecher
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
19 other wisdom & wit from Carl Jung
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
45 more 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 more wisdom & wit from Jean Cocteau
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
115 sayings 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 more wisdom & wit from Gustav Mahler
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
4 quotes 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 quotes 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 quotes from Louis Armstrong
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
5 quotes from Leonard Bernstein
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
19 quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley
Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.
4 more sayings from Louis Armstrong
Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
16 wisdom & wit from Samuel Goldwyn
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
26 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 other thoughts from Samuel Goldwyn
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
5 more 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 views 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 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 sayings from Henri Frederic Amiel
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
21 more sayings from Leo Tolstoy
Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
2 quotes 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 sayings 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 more quotes from Truman Capote
We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.
6 views from Freddie Mercury
You are the music while the music lasts.
23 views from T. S. Eliot
Good music is very close to primitive language.
16 quotes from Denis Diderot
I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?
2 quotes from Peter Tosh
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
29 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from Ezra Pound
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
17 wisdom & wit from John Lennon
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
3 other sayings from Boethius
There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.
19 other thoughts from John Keats
Without music, life would be a mistake.
103 other sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche
All music is beautiful.
2 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 more thoughts from George Eliot
I try to use my music to move these people to act.
22 sayings 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 views from Jimi Hendrix
Music is a safe kind of high.
22 other quotes from Jimi Hendrix
Music is my religion.
22 quotes from Jimi Hendrix
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
32 quotes from Martin Luther
Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
22 more sayings from Jimi Hendrix
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
22 other sayings 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 views from Martin Luther
People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
2 thoughts from Paul Hindemith
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
2 thoughts from Corita Kent
There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
2 thoughts 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 sayings from Jimi Hendrix
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
12 sayings from Frank Zappa
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
2 sayings from Gabriel Marcel
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
7 more views 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 quotes from Samuel Butler
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
3 thoughts from Noel Coward
Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts.
11 quotes 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 thoughts 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 more sayings from Samuel Butler
Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
68 quotes from Samuel Butler
Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.
3 views from Hector Berlioz
Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
12 wisdom & wit from Frank Zappa
Music inflames temperament.
14 views from Jim Morrison
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
23 other quotes 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 sayings from George Santayana
Music is always a commentary on society.
12 thoughts from Frank Zappa
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
46 other quotes from George Santayana
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
3 other views 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 more sayings 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 more 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 more quotes 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 sayings 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 more sayings from Frank Zappa
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
12 more quotes 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 other quotes from Alvin Ailey
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
19 more wisdom & wit from Elvis Presley
I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
19 quotes from Elvis Presley
If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
6 views from Mencius
Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
17 thoughts from Plutarch
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
10 wisdom & wit from William Congreve
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
12 quotes from Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
3 more 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 other views from Walter Savage Landor
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
12 thoughts from Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
45 views from Thomas Fuller
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
12 other quotes 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 more quotes from Elvis Presley
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
15 quotes from Albert Schweitzer
A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
21 more wisdom & wit from W. H. Auden
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
12 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 other wisdom & wit from Andres Segovia
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
21 more thoughts 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 quotes from Sidney Lanier
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
21 more quotes from W. H. Auden
Music is the melody whose text is the world.
29 quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer
Music is the universal language of mankind.
26 quotes 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 thoughts from Lawrence Durrell
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
45 more quotes from John Ruskin
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
11 other quotes 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 thoughts from W. H. Auden
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
11 views from Bob Marley
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
16 wisdom & wit from Havelock Ellis
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
31 other views from Gertrude Stein
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
26 other quotes 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 views 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 quotes from Robert Frost
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
17 more quotes from Tennessee Williams
Love is a friendship set to music.
18 thoughts from Joseph Campbell
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
2 views from Johann Sebastian Bach
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
18 quotes from Jean Paul
Nature's music is never over her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
2 more wisdom & wit from Mary Webb
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.
9 more sayings 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 sayings from Johann Sebastian Bach
The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
9 sayings from Lawrence Welk