Music Quotes: Melodies of Inspiration (Page 6)

"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

"A "scream" is always just that - a noise and not music"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder"

John Ruskin, Writer

"Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening"

Don Van Vliet, Artist

"Music is the melody whose text is the world"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough"

Lucy Larcom, Poet

"Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world"

Martin Luther, Professor

"Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us"

Martin Luther, Professor

"What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"In memory everything seems to happen to music"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"Where words fail, music speaks"

H. C. Andersen, Writer

"There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect"

Thomas Mann, Writer

"There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet"

Thomas Merton, Author

"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet"

George Eliot, Author

"Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"Music inflames temperament"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish"

William Blake, Poet

"The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes"

Richard Baker, Politician

"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

"Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music"

Diogenes, Philosopher

"I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly"

Sting, Musician

"We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

"Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there"

Judith Viorst, Author

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