Music Quotes - page 5

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. (Noël Coward)
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. View quote
Elvis Presley
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. View quote
Thomas Beecham
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. View quote
Thomas Beecham
Music is all about wanting to be better at it. View quote
Geddy Lee
This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it. View quote
Harrison Birtwistle
Listen to them - children of the night. What music they make. View quote
Bram Stoker
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them. View quote
Luciano Pavarotti
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. View quote
William Blake
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. View quote
Plutarch
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle. (Heinrich Heine)
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. View quote
Denis Diderot
Good music is very close to primitive language. View quote
Denis Diderot
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. View quote
William Wordsworth
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. View quote
Claude Debussy
She was one of those people who said ''I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.'' View quote
Max Beerbohm
Music causes us to think eloquently. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's no religion but sex and music. View quote
Sting (musician)
It's not like I'm hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebrity golf tournaments. I'm so in my own little world. I got my dog, my music, my brother, a couple of friends. View quote
Jared Leto
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
Music fathoms the sky. (Charles Baudelaire)
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. View quote
Ray Charles
Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it. View quote
Ray Charles
Architecture is crystallized music. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art. View quote
Jimi Hendrix