Music Is Quotes - Page 5

• 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; The earth is but the music of the spheres.

  Lord Byron

  Music, Men, Ears

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Fifteenth”

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• Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Philosophy, Thinking

  Ludwig Van Beethoven, John Trie (2017). “Ludwig Van Beethoven for Classical Guitar - Tablature: Arranged for Guitar by John Trie”, p.36, BoD - Books on Demand

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• There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Wisdom, Prayer

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• To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

  Aaron Copland

  Music, Time, Would Be

  Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”

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• Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Music, Art, Literature

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• People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

  Witold Lutosławski

  Music, Airports, People

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• Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.

  Judy Collins

  Love, Music, Feelings

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• Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Music, Ocean, Blessed

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• A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

  Ernest Newman

  Music, Found, Composer

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• My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.

  Edward Elgar

  Music, Art, Air

  Quoted in Robert J. Buckley, Sir Edward Elgar (1905)

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• It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Music, May, Characteristics

  James Weldon Johnson “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Music is the key to the female heart.

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Music, Wisdom, Heart

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• Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Song, Errors

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

  Eric Clapton

  Music, Philosophy, Rock N Roll

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• Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.

  Noel Coward

  Music, Stars, Quality

  "MPD Opens Star Quality: The World of Noel Coward 4/16". www.broadwayworld.com. April 16, 2009.

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• The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

  Jeffrey Tate

  Music, Expression, Perfect

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• There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

  Ronnie Wood

  Music, Running, Kind

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• Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.

  Socrates

  Music, Grace, Soul

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• All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Music, Song, Essence

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.247

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• 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

  Music, Order, Discipline

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• There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.

  William Cowper

  Music, Sympathy, Soul

  William Cowper (1822). “The poems of William Cowper”, p.136

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• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Sound And Music, Musical Life

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• Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Music, Lonely, Loneliness

  Lawrence Durrell (1961). “Clea”

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• Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Art, Language

  FaceBook post by Herbie Hancock from Nov 19, 2015

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• Music is my religion.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Religion, Rock N Roll

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