Music Quotes - page 6

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. (Søren Kierkegaard)
Music fills the infinite between two souls. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. View quote
Gustav Mahler
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. View quote
Igor Stravinsky
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead. View quote
Igor Stravinsky
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. View quote
Igor Stravinsky
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.' View quote
Barack Obama
The iPod completely changed the way people approach music. View quote
Karl Lagerfeld
There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. View quote
Boris Vian
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound. (Eduard Hanslick)
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. View quote
Martin Luther
Dance music is like a virus: it has affected so many different genres. View quote
Avicii
I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to. View quote
Maurice Gibb
Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person. View quote
Maurice Gibb
Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully. View quote
Pierre Loti
I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly. View quote
Richard Price
I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts. View quote
Fran Drescher
Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference. View quote
Herbie Hancock
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language. (Herbie Hancock)
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music. View quote
Herbie Hancock
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse. View quote
Bing Crosby
Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion. View quote
Bruno Mars
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. View quote
George Jean Nathan