Music Quotes - page 11

Music expresses the motion of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes. (Claude Debussy)

Let him [who would be an architect] be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens.

Vitruvius

Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae, catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are the holes in the frames through which the strings of twisted sinew are stretched by means of windlasses and bars, and these strings must not be clamped and made fast until they give the same correct note to the ear of the skilled workman.

Vitruvius

You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music.

Sid Vicious

The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

James Hetfield

I don't think much about happiness. But I know that playing music makes me feel good.

Jared Leto

You have Van Gogh's ear for music.

Billy Wilder

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.

Victor Hugo

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

David Bowie

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. (John Erskine)

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Lord Byron

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Martin Mull

Music is a safe kind of high.

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

The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.

Herbert Marcuse

I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man Who could ask for anything more.

Ira Gershwin

... lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and ... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to "walk about” into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?

Wassily Kandinsky

Measure a man by his actions fully, from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about, because you know better than that.

Tupac Shakur

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Mary Kay Ash

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying. (Neil Young)

Classical music is the kind we keep hoping will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.

William Shakespeare

So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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