Great Music Quotes

May 16, 2005

“Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.” -Voltaire (1694-1778)

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

“There’s nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.” -Johann Sebastian Bach

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

“Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.” -Samuel Butler

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. -Victor Hugo

“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.” -Oscar Wilde

“Music is the vernacular of the human soul.” -Geoffrey Latham

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” - Plato

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

Posted by pablohart on May 16, 2005 11:35 AM

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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
~ Red Auerbach

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
~ Joseph Addison

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
~ Henry Giles

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
~ Miles Davis

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
~ Martin Luther

Posted by Kevin Wood at July 17, 2005 4:16 AM

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