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Richard Wagner
I write music with an exclamation point!
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Friedrich Nietzsche
In music the passions enjoy themselves
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Henry Ward Beecher
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Thomas Carlyle
Music is well said to be the speech of angels
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William Shakespeare
If music be the food of love; play on.
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Plato
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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Henry Giles
A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
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William Congreve
Music has charms to soothe the savage beast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.
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Thomas Carlyle
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Louis Armstrong
What we play is life.

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.
Tom Stoppard (1937 - )

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
Sir Thomas Beecham (1879 - 1961)

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 (1900 - 1990)

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977)

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Edgar Wilson Nye (1850 - 1896), quoted in Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1924

Only sick music makes money today.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Der Fall Wagner, Section 5

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)

I hate music, especially when it's played.
Jimmy Durante (1893 - 1980)

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)

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.
Virgil Thompson

Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

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. John Cage (1912 - 1992)
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)

Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
Marcus Brigstocke

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)

Silence is more musical than any song.
Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)

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.
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Music at Night", 1931

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.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, Conclusion, 1854

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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)

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.
Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
Garth Brooks, Country Music
Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)

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.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Mite Makes Right,
1994

If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound 1
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour!
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Twelfth Night", Act 1 scene 1

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971), Poetics of Music

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.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

When I am asked, "What do you think of our audience?" I answer, "I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing."
Arthur Schnabel (1882 - 1951), My Life and Music (1961)

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) act 3

What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971), In Observer 8 Oct. 1961

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.
Jeffrey Vlaming, Northern Exposure, Heroes, 1992

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world.
Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)

I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.
Britney Spears (1981 - )

Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.
Frederick the Great (1712 - 1786)

I learned in the last few years that it's really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on something as arbitrary as record sale and critical acclaim and the interests of the public. All of those things are so fickle. So my approach now to music is I want to make records that I love, and I hope that other people love them, then that's OK.
Moby, quoted on CNN.com, March 2005

It just seem like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world... Music has been so much more.
Moby, quoted on CNN.com, March 2005

From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage.
From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought.
From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.
Visions of Gregorian Chants

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.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

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.
Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993), The Medusa and the Snail (1979)

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.
Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993), The Medusa and the Snail (1979)

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)

The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.
Donald E. Knuth

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.
Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005), "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"

Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use saying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

I was simply furnishing a home. I love music ... and I don't think a $130,000 indoor-outdoor stereo system is extravagant.
Leona Helmsley, 1990, refuting charges that her lifestyle was excessive

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

Making music should not be left to the professionals.
Michelle Shocked

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.
Isaac Stern

Only sick music makes money today.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Dame Edith Sitwell

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955)

Everybody should be able to make some music...That's the cosmic dance!
Maude (Ruth Gordon), from the movie "Harold & Maude"

Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.
Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944), 1912

That's a hell of an ambition, to be mellow. It's like wanting to be senile.
Randy Newman on middle of the road music

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.
S.J. Perelman

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977)


Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)

The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.
The Tribune, Berlin, 1871

There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal
The National, Paris, 1850

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)

Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)

Philosophy is the highest music.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)

No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)

I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.
Erin Cleary

Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.
Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)


How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

Every child is musical. Unfortunately this natural gift is squelched before it has time to develop. From my all life experience I remember being laughed at because my voice and the words I sang didn't please someone. My second grade teacher, Miss Stone would not let me sing with the rest of the class because she judged my voice as not musical and she said I threw the class off key. I believed her which led to the blockage of my appreciation of music and blocked my ability to write poetry. Fortunately at the age of 57 I had a significant emotional event which unblocked my ability to composed poetry which many people believe have lyrical qualities.
Sidney Madwed

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Mrs. Stowe

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.
Ricard

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.
Luther

Nevertheless 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.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to.
Hazrat Inayat Khan

All the sounds of the earth are like music.
Oscar Hammerstein II

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)


The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
Jonathan Edwards

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.
William Lyon Phelps

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 faraway.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)


DANCE, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane literature is in Homer's narrative of the war between them and the mice. Skeptical persons have doubted Homer's authorship of the work, but the learned, ingenious and industrious Dr. Schliemann has set the question forever at rest by uncovering the bones of the slain frogs. One of the forms of moral suasion by which Pharaoh was besought to favor the Israelities was a plague of frogs, but Pharaoh, who liked them _fricasees_, remarked, with truly oriental stoicism, that he could stand it as long as the frogs and the Jews could; so the programme was changed. The frog is a diligent songster, having a good voice but no ear. The libretto of his favorite opera, as written by Aristophanes, is brief, simple and effective -- "brekekex-koax"; the music is apparently by that eminent composer, Richard Wagner. Horses have a frog in each hoof -- a thoughtful provision of nature, enabling them to shine in a hurdle race.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

MINSTREL, adj. Formerly a poet, singer or musician; now a nigger with a color less than skin deep and a humor more than flesh and blood can bear.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary


NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo."

The Headliner, holding the copy in hand,
Read with a solemn face:
"The music was very uncommonly grand --
The best that was every provided,
For our townsman Brown presided
At the organ with skill and grace."
The Headliner discontinued to read,
And, spread the paper down
On the desk, he dashed in at the top of the screed:
"Great playing by President Brown."
Orpheus Bowen
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary


There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? 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.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), "Walden"

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.
Tom Stoppard (1937 - )






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, deplorable 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.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)


A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE

Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.
Woody Allen (1935 - ), Without Feathers


In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.
Charles Mingus

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.
H.S. Thompson

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)

Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.
Nikki Harris


Pain doesn't travel in straight lines. It circles back around and comes up behind you. It's the circles that kill you.
Pat Conroy (1945 - ), Beach Music


Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.
Shneur Zalman

People judge you not by the size of your feet, but by whether your socks match.
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 he hears, how ever measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)

For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880), Charles Bovary

Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best.
Reverend Oliver G. Wilson

Life without music would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
George Carlin (1937 - )

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

Prima la musica, poi le parole (first the music, then the words)
Antonio Salieri, title of an opera

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.
Jim Morrison

Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.
Tom Robbins (1936 - )









We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-beakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world forever, it seems.
Arthur William Edgar O' Shaugnessy

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed 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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say. "May new sufferings torment your soul."
Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)


To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
jack handy

May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason?
James Joseph Sylvester

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.
Steve Prefontaine

If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.
Claude Debussy

Don't die with the music in you.
Wayne Bennett

Experience is a comb that is given to you, when you have already lost you hair.
Giorgos Zambetas, Greek musician

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley

the music was human; the static was natural.
John Updike (1932 - ), taken from James Gleik's CHAOS

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.
Agnes De Mille (1909 - 1993)

Those who dance were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
Angela Monet

Fame and glory are fleeting, especially in the music business. That's why completing my degree and graduating from college were priorities.
Clay Aiken, Charlotte Observer

It's okay for musicians not to be womanizers.
Clay Aiken, CosmoGirl!

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
Barbara Sher

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME.
Shirley MacLaine (1934 - )

I call architecture frozen music.
Goethe

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
John Adams (1735 - 1826)

All music if folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song.
Louis Armstrong (1900 - 1971)

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity and tolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), 'Vulgarity in Literature' Music Night 1931

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.
Dave Matthews, VH1 Special: Trey And Dave Go To Africa

...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language.
Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)

When words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Anderson

If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of; but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also way out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvelous fight in this world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself and be excused for it. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmity of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Concerning the Jews, Harper's Magazine, ept 1899


Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.
Charlie Brown, Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.
J. S. Bach

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.
Bob Newhart (1929 - )

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.
Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880), Madame Bovary

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.
Sir Thomas Beecham (1879 - 1961)

Swearing is like any other music...If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...
David Gridley, Indiantown

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
Hunter S Thompson

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
William Stafford

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)

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

Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.
Charlie Parker

When words leave off, music begins.
Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881)

原帖由 eric 于 2007-11-11 23:21:00 发表 谢谢tty123的转贴，看来音阶、和弦、琶音非常重要，打印出来给我女儿看。

但愿E版培养出一个女钢琴大师！