music quotes

• Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music. (George Bernard Shaw) [dancing/desire/music]
• Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy. (Robert Burton) [men/melancholy/music/melancholy]
• Music is the melody whose text is the world. (Arthur Schopenhauer) [music]
• Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. (Jimmy Carter) [music/art/love/nature]
• Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. (Frank Zappa) [music/time]
• Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. (George Santayana) [music/form/feelings]
• Music is the universal language of mankind. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [music/language/mankind]
• When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [music]
• I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [music/wisdom/philosophy]
• Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [music/strike/tears/eyes]
• Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [music/life]
• Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [music/knowledge/mankind/mankind]
• Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [music/wine/inspires/wine]
• Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [music/philosophy]
• Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. (Martin Luther) [god/art/music/treasure]
• My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. (Martin Luther) [music]
• Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [music/wonder]
• How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank.
  Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music
  Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night
  Become the touches of sweet harmony. (William Shakespeare) [willpower/music/night/harmony]
• When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point. (Maria Callas) [music/point]
• 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. (William Wordsworth) [music/more]
• Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. (Joseph Addison) [music]
• Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. (Joseph Addison) [being/music]
• A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children. (Ian Anderson) [music/money]
• There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind. (Louis Armstrong) [music/bad]
• Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore. (Jacques Attali) [music/society/repetition/willpower]
• If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brnnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni. (Wystan Auden) [music/human/feelings/quality]
• Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. (Red Auerbach) [music/dust/life]
• Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [music/god]
• Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [music/life]
• Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [music/strike/tears/form]
• Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. (Ingmar Bergman) [film/film/music/art]

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