This strange beating together of hands has no meaning. To me it
is very disturbing. We try to make sounds like music, and then
it between comes this strange sound.
- Leopold Stokowski
Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.
- Peter York
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make
you do something we'd all love one another.
- Frank Zappa
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the
contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body
and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater
health to your mind.
- Hal A. Lingerman
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you
don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you
there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line
to art.
- Charlie Parker
I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome
music.
- Aretha Franklin
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore
be introduced into the education of the young.
- Aristotle
There are 2 means of refuge from the miseries of life: music
and cats.
- A.Schweitzer
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things
to the heart.
- Pablo Casals
Music is everybody's possession. Only publishers think that
people own it.
- John Lennon
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between
the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
- Maya Angelou
Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
All the sounds of the earth are like music.
- Oscar Hammerstein (1895-1960)
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.
- Yehudi Menuhin
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking
are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another
way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the
brain.
- George Szell
. . . I improvised, crazed by the music. . . . Even my teeth
and eyes burned with fever. Each time I leaped I seemed
to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be
mine alone.
- Josephine Baker
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
- Pat Conroy
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music
...Bodies never lie...
- Agnes De Mile
"And these .. these phrases you keep speaking in. They don't
make any sense."
"Ah, you seek meaning?"
"Yes."
"Then listen to the music, not the song."
- Kosh and Talia Winters in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker"
Music — The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of
knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot
comprehend.
- Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.
- Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
- Ludwig van Beethoven
Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.
- Gioacchini Antonio Rossini
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
- Voltaire
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
- Elvis Presley
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
- Sir Thomas Beecham
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.'
-Aaron Copland
What passions cannot music raise or quell?
-John Driden
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the
William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
-Dan Rather
I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth
get cleaner?
-Frank Zappa (in response to Tipper Gore's
allegations that music incites people or influences
their behavior in general)
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have
hear below.
- Joseph Addison
The soul of music slumbers in the shell
Till waked and kindled by the master's spell;
And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour
A thousand melodies unheard before!
- Samuel Rogers
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is
impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo
Yes; as the music changes, Like a prismatic glass; It takes the light
and ranges Through all the moods that pass.
- Alfred Noyes
If music be the food of love, play on.
- Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
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