Music

Quote link. Other quotes about: think Other quotes by Samuel Johnson.: "Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never rule Other quotes by Samuel Butler.: "Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often."
Quote link. Other quotes by Vladimir Nabokov.: "My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work man Other quotes by Samuel Butler.: "Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: christ day think love male fact Other quotes by Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad.: "Frank I'd known her for years. We used to go to all the police functions together. Ah, how I loved her, but she had her music. I think she had her music. She'd hang out with the Chicago Male Chorus and Symphony. I don't recall her playing an instrument or be able to carry a tune. Yet she was on the road 300 days of the year. In fact I bought her a harp for christmas. She asked me what it was."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing hate war sin Other quotes by Albert Einstein.: "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 fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science human dreams young Other quotes by Eric Anderson.: "It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams."
Quote link. Other quotes by June Masters Bacher.: "Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Sir Thomas Beecham.: "A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: christ earth old sun grow young soul Other quotes by Phillips Brooks.: "The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung."
Quote link. Other quotes by Phillips Brooks.: "Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience good Other quotes by John Cage.: "If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience."
Quote link. Other quotes about: words Other quotes by Truman Capote.: "To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make."
Quote link. Other quotes about: pain light law rule born Other quotes by Truman Capote.: "Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: dreams Other quotes by Roald Dahl.: "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art man life Other quotes by Jim Davis.: "There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Agnes de Mille.: "The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life light Other quotes by Maurice Druon.: "Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number."
Quote link. Other quotes by Aretha Franklin.: "I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life perfect fact Other quotes by Stan Getz.: "My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often--in fact, mostly--at the expense of everything else in my life."
Quote link. Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts.: "To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other."
Quote link. Other quotes about: duty death evil born Other quotes by Jeffrey Vlaming.: "Dateline Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That's when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out the the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something never people good Other quotes by Edgar Watson Howe.: "When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work life hard Other quotes by Bruce Jenner.: "I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won't."
Quote link. Other quotes by Martin Luther.: "My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."
Quote link. Other quotes by Julius Henry Marx.: "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never love Other quotes by Susanne Millen.: "Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold."
Quote link. Other quotes by Angela Mont.: "Those who danced where thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books friend book friends look Other quotes by Alfred A. Montapert.: "We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends."
Quote link. Other quotes by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov.: "My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day live think time never look Other quotes by Dave Navarro.: "I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on the planet, or from time to time I'll think I'm the greatest gift to music and the coolest guy who ever lived, but that happens maybe an hour out of the week. Some days I'm more concerned with how my hair looks than what my guitar sounds like."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.: "Without music life would be a mistake."
Quote link. Other quotes by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.: "In music the passions enjoy themselves."
Quote link. Other quotes about: need Other quotes by Luciano Pavarotti.: "You don't need any brains to listen to music."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mental books world people men book good love Other quotes by William Lyon Phelps.: "Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation -- what are they They are the happiest people in the world."
Quote link. Other quotes by Elvis Presley.: "I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad love woman Other quotes by Lionel Richie.: "The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway."
Quote link. Other quotes by Friedrich von Schelling.: "Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music."
Quote link. Other quotes about: silence person Other quotes by Edith Sitwell.: "My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky.: "Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."
Quote link. Other quotes about: pain ideas Other quotes by Harriet.: "Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human people understand change society mind Other quotes by Lewis Thomas.: "We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man life nature Other quotes by Lewis Thomas.: "We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a 'common goal' of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind Other quotes by Hung Tzu-ch'eng.: "When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure fragrance even without incense or tea."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think Other quotes by Unknown.: "Those who hear not the music. . . think the dancers mad."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Peter Ustinov.: "I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art little nature war Other quotes by Izaak Walton.: "Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art."
Quote link. Other quotes by Richard Wagner.: "I write music with an exclamation point"
Quote link. Other quotes about: live discover forget Other quotes by Alan B. Watts.: "No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking art think future Other quotes by Henry M. Wriston.: "A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech friend live people silence light friends alone Other quotes by Henry Bromel.: "After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man answer words Other quotes by Aaron Copland.: "The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is' My answer to that would be, 'No.'"
Quote link. Other quotes about: hate Other quotes by Jimmy Durante.: "I hate music, especially when it's played."
Quote link. Other quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.: "I call architecture frozen music."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time food mind Other quotes by Barbara Hall.: "Being plied with fine food always puts me in mind of the slammer, cause the food was jumpin' in there too--high in fat but nice and salty. You know what the worst deprivation in there was My music. Radio belonged to my cell mate, the Blonde Hammer. He was into that jazz-fusion thing at the time. I tell you what, enough Spyro Gyra and you're hoping you'll get killed in a knife fight."
Quote link. Other quotes by Groucho Marx.: "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."
Quote link. Other quotes by Bill Nye.: "Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
Quote link. Other quotes by Christina G. Rossetti.: "Silence is more musical than any song."
Quote link. Other quotes by J. K. Rowling.: "Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here"
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth Other quotes by Andrew Schneider.: "Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it, it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america wish Other quotes by Virgil Thompson.: "The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish."
Quote link. Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "Hell is full of musical amateurs."
Quote link. Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned."
Quote link. Other quotes by Warren Bennis.: "Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find fear Other quotes by George Eliot.: "There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength think life ideas Other quotes by George Eliot.: "I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world moon Other quotes by Arthur O'Shaunessey.: "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems."
Quote link. Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "I call architecture frozen music."
Quote link. Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
Quote link. Other quotes about: children child Other quotes by Igor Stravinsky.: "My music is best understood by children and animals."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man nature love deep society Other quotes by George Gordon Byron.: "There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money today Other quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche.: "Only sick music makes money today."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk day book good love rest food Other quotes by Roosevelt, Eleanor.: "A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -- that would be rest."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art believe respect Other quotes by John Lennon.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth live man pain heaven Other quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr..: "If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."
Quote link. Other quotes about: heaven Other quotes by Henry Ward Beecher.: "Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart."
Quote link. Other quotes by Anon..: "A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find soul Other quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes.: "Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body."
Quote link. Other quotes by Joseph Addison.: "Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing understand wisdom Other quotes by Walter Lippmann.: "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Henry David Thoreau.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time fear Other quotes by Henry David Thoreau.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people young Other quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith.: "What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say"
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth art love Other quotes by Robert Browning.: "What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept"
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth Other quotes by William Shakespeare.: "The earth has music for those who listen."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind Other quotes by William Shakespeare.: "When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress."
Quote link. Other quotes by Stanley Kubrick.: "A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later."
Quote link. Other quotes about: silence Other quotes by Aldous Huxley.: "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad good grow Other quotes by This Is Spinal Tap.: "Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america think Other quotes by Gerald Early.: "I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world people life rich forget soul Other quotes by Henry Miller.: "Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
Quote link. Other quotes by Plato.: "Philosophy is the highest music."
Quote link. Other quotes about: history change Other quotes by Tom Stoppard.: "If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation."
Quote link. Other quotes by Richard Milhous Nixon.: "If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."
Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking think Other quotes by Kin Hubbard.: "Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art pain peace Other quotes by Abraham Maslow.: "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be."

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