34 quotes
“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul”
— Bach
“The earth has music for those who listen.”
— George Santayana
“Architecture is frozen music.”
— Schelling
“Music can lift us out of depression and move us to tears because it speaks the language of wonder directly to our souls”
— Oliver Sacks
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is geometry in the humming of the strings and there is music in the spacing of the spheres filled with wonder”
— Pythagoras
“Musicians do not retire they stop when there is no more music in them”
— Louis Armstrong
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Music gives a soul to the universe wings to the mind flight to the imagination and wonder to everything”
— Plato
“Where words fail music speaks and where music fails kindness still communicates”
— Hans Christian Andersen
“To play a wrong note is insignificant to play without passion is inexcusable”
— Ludwig van Beethoven
“I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning”
— Yo-Yo Ma
“Music is the medicine of the mind.”
— John Logan
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy”
— Beethoven
“The piano has eighty eight keys and every single one of them is the right note”
— Thelonious Monk
“I was born with music inside me music was one of my parts like my ribs my kidneys my liver my heart”
— Ray Charles
“Music gives a soul to the universe wings to the mind flight to the imagination and life to everything.”
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music of time”
“I think that is the real reason I make music because of the physical sensation it gives me”
— Bjork
“Music is the space between the notes. Creativity lives in the spaces between obvious things.”
— Claude Debussy
“Philosophy is the highest music.”
“One good thing about music when it hits you you feel no pain”
— Bob Marley
“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.”
— Leibniz
“Do not die with your music still in you”
— Wayne Dyer
“Music is the space between the notes”
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. Music is peace made audible.”
— Victor Hugo
“One good thing about music when it hits you you feel no pain. Music brings peace.”
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music of wonder”
“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music”
— Gustav Mahler
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent”
“Without music life would be a mistake”
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