Music Quotes - Page 9

• If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Confidence

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• The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Beauty, Art, Numbers

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  Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

  Duke Ellington

  Occupation, Jazz, Compulsion

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• They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.

  Charles Mingus

  Singing, Phrases, Jazz

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• If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Play

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.257, Penguin

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• Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Lonely, Loneliness, Political

  Lawrence Durrell (1961). “Clea”

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• Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

  Arnold Bennett

  Wisdom, Dope, Soul

  Arnold Bennett (2004). “Sacred and Profane Love”, p.14, online-ebooks.info

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• All of heaven we have below.

  Joseph Addison

  Heaven

  'A Song for St Cecilia's Day'

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• This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer to that would be, “Yes.” And “Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?” My answer to that would be, “No.”

  Aaron Copland

  Jazz, States, Composer

  "What to Listen For in Music".

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• Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Distance, Made

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.185

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• An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

  Henry Miller

  Lonely, Loneliness, Artist

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Moving, Men

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.425

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• Any good music must be an innovation.

  Les Baxter

  Innovation, Musical

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• Music inflames temperament.

  Jim Morrison

  Temperament

  Song: The Ghost Song

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• Music revives the recollections it would appease.

  Madame de Stael

  Recollection, Revive, Appease

  "Corinne" by Madame de Stael, Book IX, Chapter II, 1807.

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• Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

  George Szell

  Giving, Jazz And Life, Orchestra

  Newsweek 28 Jan. 1963

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• Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

  Mark Twain

  Witty, Humorous, Profound

  Autobiography (published in 1924).

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• Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Math, Science, Mind

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• Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

  Noel Coward

  Work, Extraordinary, Funny Music

  'Private Lives' (1930) act 1

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• A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

  Carl Jung

  Reality, Noise, Scream

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Never play anything the same way twice.

  Louis Armstrong

  Play, Way, Jazz

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• And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Night, Poetry, Taking A Break

  "The Day Is Done" st. 11 (1844)

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• If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Conversation, Duty, Ifs

  1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.4.

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• Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't.

  Gary Bartz

  People, Jazz, Musical

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• 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

  Doe, Novelty, Accustomed

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