Music Quotes: Melodies of Inspiration

"Music is my religion"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"Music is the medicine of the mind"

John A. Logan, Soldier

"Music is the universal language of mankind"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary"

Martin Luther, Professor

"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff"

Frank Zappa, Musician

"Music is the silence between the notes"

Claude Debussy, Composer

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising"

Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist

"For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever"

Arthur Sullivan, Composer

"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"I've always been into melodies. That's what I love about music – a good melody that gives you goosebumps"

Kygo, Musician

"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"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"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Where words fail, music speaks"

H. C. Andersen, Writer

"You are the music while the music lasts"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

"The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it"

Rick Wright, Musician

"A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it"

Mikhail Glinka, Composer

"Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass"

Frank Zappa, Musician

"Music can change the world because it can change people"

Bono, Musician

"And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'"

Bob Newhart, Comedian

"May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life"

James Joseph Sylvester, Mathematician

"Music is too important to be left to professionals"

Michelle Shocked, Musician

"We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time"

Daniel Johns, Musician

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain"

Bob Marley, Musician

"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe"

Lao Tzu, Author

"I call architecture frozen music"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture"

Steve Martin, Comedian

"I believe that there are many interesting projects that are potentially possible for me other than game music, and therefore in my mind there are several things that are being contemplated"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"Music is organized sound"

Edgard Varese, Composer

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music"

Billy Wilder, Director

"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind"

Louis Armstrong, Musician

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