MUSIC QUOTES III

quotations about music

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The inner nature of man is the province of music.

CONFUCIUS

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Words must ever sound so feeble in attempting to express the magic power of melody.

ARTHUR HELPS

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This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

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I am in need of music that would flow
Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips,
Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips,
With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow.
Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low,
Of some song sung to rest the tired dead,
A song to fall like water on my head,
And over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow!

ELIZABETH BISHOP

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Music is a language lovers understand
Melody and romance wander hand in hand
Cupid never fails assisted by a band
So if you have something sweet to tell her
Say it with music

IRVING BERLIN

Tags: Irving Berlin

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Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep ... music is a part of the fabric of everyday life.

DANIEL J. LEVITIN

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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

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Everything is music for the born musician.

ROMAIN ROLLAND

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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

PLATO

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Music ... is the frozen tapioca in the ice sheet of History.

DONALD BARTHELME

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

JOSEPH ADDISON

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Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

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I don't read music. And my mom is this classically trained person, and I went the other way. And I think it's helped me write songs that I wouldn't have written if I were going at the technical way. Because they go, "Oh, you can't go from this chord to that chord. It's not the way you're supposed to do it."

MARIAH CAREY

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The emotional impact of music is so incommensurate with what people can say about it, and that seems to be very illustrative of something fundamental--that very powerful emotional effects often can’t be articulated. You know something’s happened to you but you don’t know what it is.

ADAM PHILLIPS

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Hark to the music! How beneath the strain
Of reckless revelry, vibrates and sobs
One fundamental chord of constant pain,
The pulse-beat of the poet's heart that throbs.

EMMA LAZARUS

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Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person.

SARAH DESSEN

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Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!

E. H. CHAPIN

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Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound.

THOMAS AQUINAS

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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

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Music recalls a state of feeling, and not merely a series of incidents. When we listen to the long-forgotten melody, we do not review the scenes and actions of our childhood in succession, but we become for the moment children once again.

ARTHUR HELPS

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