Music Quotes - Page 11

• Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Memories, Tears

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.88, Wordsworth Editions

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• For me, every sound has its own minute form - is composed of small flashing rhythms, shifting tones, has momentum, comes, vanishes, lives out its own structure.

  Annea Lockwood

  Sound, Momentum, Shifting

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• Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Food, Literature, Dinner

  Quoted in The NewYork Times, 16 Nov 1967.

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• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Jazz And Life, Doe, Stealing

  In Peter Yates Twentieth Century Music (1967) pt. 1, ch. 8. Cf. T. S. Eliot 76:8, Lionel Trilling 218:1

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• Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Beautiful, Life Is Like, Metaphors Of Life

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• There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.

  Duane Allman

  Inspirational, Communication, Different

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• Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Poor, Music Is

  1876 Letters and Social Aims,'Poetry and Imagination'.

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• Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Moving, Soul, May

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Don't be a drag. Just be a queen.

  Lady Gaga

  Queens, Drag

  Song: Born This Way, Album: Born This Way: The Remix

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• The most effective preaching of the gospel is when it is accompanied by beautiful, appropriate music.

  Harold B. Lee

  Beautiful, Preaching, Appropriate

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• Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.

  William C. Bryant

  Entertainment, Study, Listeners

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• Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.

  Thomas Fuller

  Singing, Sound, Tunes

  "The History of the Worthies of England". Volume 1,

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• It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity-where energies flow smoothly in one direction-there will be much doing but no music.

  Eric Hoffer

  Loyalty, One Direction, Opposites

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go over in our minds the lyrics which teach the peaceable things of the kingdom. If we will listen, they are teaching the gospel, for the hymns of the Restoration are, in fact, a course in doctrine!

  Boyd K. Packer

  Teaching, Play, Hymns

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• Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

  Isaac Stern

  Art, Notes, Violinist

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• There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

  Thomas Beecham

  Funny, Two, Giving

  In Harold Atkins and Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978) p. 27

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• I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Cities, Piano

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

  John Coltrane

  Moving, Jazz, Middle

  "Coltrane plays standards".

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• Sweet music! sacred tongue of God.

  Charles Godfrey Leland

  Sweet, Sacred, Tongue

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• The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh That filters through the forest, or the gush That swells and sinks amid the branches high,-- 'Tis all the music of the wind, and we Let fancy float on the aeolian breath.

  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

  Summer, Wind, Filters

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• Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

  Charlie Parker

  Jazz And Life, Boundaries, Guitar Music

  "Bird: the legend of Charlie Parker". Book by Robert George Reisner, p. 27, 1977.

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• Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Pain, Men, Rivers

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.519

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• They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

  Charlie Parker

  Art, Men, Jazz And Life

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

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• Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Writing, Thank God, Earth

  Letter to Ferdinand Ries, 20 Dec. 1822

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• By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

  Duke Ellington

  Daughter, Mother, Men

  "At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene". Book by Nat Hentoff, 2010.

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