Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Music

• I call architecture frozen music.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Music, Badass, Bad Ass

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.282

• The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Music, Art, Doe

• The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Music, Strikes, Familiar

• Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Music, Doe, Novelty

• To blow is not to play on the flute; you must move the fingers.
  [Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Music, Moving, Blow

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