Quotes: music
| Aaron Copland | To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. |
| Albert Einstein | He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a [read rest of quote] |
| Aldous Huxley | After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. |
| Ben Harper | Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond [read rest of quote] |
| Christina Rossetti | Silence is more musical than any song. |
| E.M. Cioran | Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. |
| Edith Sitwell | My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. |
| Erin Cleary | I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time. |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Without music life would be a mistake. |
| George Bernard Shaw | Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the [read rest of quote] |
| George Eliot | I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to inf [read rest of quote] |
| Georges Clemenceau | Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. |
| Heinrich Heine | The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle. |
| Igor Stravinsky | Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. |
| Kin Hubbard | Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. |
| Martin Luther | My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick a [read rest of quote] |
| Michel de Montaigne | There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn [read rest of quote] |
| Michelle Shocked | Making music should not be left to the professionals. |
| Nikki Harris | Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music. |
| Plato | Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness [read rest of quote] |
| Robert Fripp | Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. |
| S. J. Perelman | I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and canta [read rest of quote] |
| Stephen Leacock | Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certai [read rest of quote] |
| The National | There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, there [read rest of quote] |
| Thomas Browne | Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than th [read rest of quote] |
| Victor Hugo | Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words. |
| Vladimir Nabokov | My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. |
| William Congreve |
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the poin [read rest of quote] |