Music Quotes…

In order of the quoted with no weight to any… enjoy…

“Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.” –Henri Frederic Amiel

“Where words fail, music speaks.” –Hans Christian Andersen

“Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.” –Mary Kay Ash

“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” –Berthold Auerbach

“Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.” –Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.” –Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.” –Ludwig van Beethoven

“Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.” –G. K. Chesterton

“Music is the art of thinking with sounds.” –Jules Combarieu

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” –Confucius

“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” –Aaron Copland

“Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.” –Claude Debussy

“Music is an outburst of the soul.” –Frederick Delius

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. … I get most joy in life out of music.” –Albert Einstein

“You are the music while the music lasts.” –T.S. Eliot

“There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.” –Thomas C. Haliburton

“Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.” –E. Y. Harburg

“Music is the soul of language.” –Max Heindel

“When words leave off, music begins.” –Heinrich Heine

“Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.” –Jimi Hendrix

“My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.” –Jimi Hendrix

“Music is a safe kind of high.” –Jimi Hendrix

“Music is my religion.” –Jimi Hendrix

“Music makes me high on stage, and that’s the truth. It’s like being almost addicted to music.” –Jimi Hendrix

“Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you’ll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you’re gonna be rewarded.” –Jimi Hendrix

“When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.” –Jimi Hendrix

“Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” –Victor Hugo

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” –Aldous Huxley

“Music is the universal language of mankind.” –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.” –Marcel Marceau

“I love the development of our music, that’s what I really dig about the whole thing. How we’ve tried to develop, y’know? It grows. That’s why every day people come forward with new songs. Music goes on forever.” –Bob Marley

“My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.” –Bob Marley

“My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.” –Bob Marley

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.” –Abraham Maslow

“Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.” –Giuseppe Mazzini

“Without music life would be a mistake.” –Friedrich Nietzsche

“Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.” –Plato

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.” –Plato

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.” –Sergei Rachmaninov

“When I don’t like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely.” –Florent Schmitt

“The earth has music for those who listen.” –William Shakespeare

“I’ve never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.” –Virgil Thomson

“Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.” –Henry David Thoreau

“The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.” –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.” –Henry David Thoreau

“I write music with an exclamation point!” –Richard Wagner