Music Quotes - page 2

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy. (Siegbert Tarrasch)
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. View quote
Berthold Auerbach
Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward. View quote
Dmitri Shostakovich
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. View quote
Groucho Marx
I frequently hear music in the heart of noise. View quote
George Gershwin
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. View quote
Frank Zappa
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin
I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. (Steve Martin)
Most people still steal music. View quote
Steve Ballmer
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. View quote
Aaron Copland
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
The passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. View quote
William Congreve
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas. View quote
Bob Dylan
When words leave off, music begins. View quote
Heinrich Heine
Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. (Charles Baudelaire)
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world. View quote
Peter Ustinov
If music be the food of love, play on. View quote
William Shakespeare
What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
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