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Music35 quotes
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 · 1602If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. — Charlie Parker · 1955I think the main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe. That's what music is to me-it's just another way of saying this is a big, beautiful universe we live in, that's been given to us, and here's an example of just how magnificent and encompassing it is. That’s what I would like to do. I think that’s one of the greatest things you can do in life, and we all try to do it in some way. The musician’s is through his music. — John Coltrane · 1962Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? — John Cage · 1961One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain. — Bob Marley · 1971I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · 1777All 35 quotes →Power of music8 quotes
I think the main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe. That's what music is to me-it's just another way of saying this is a big, beautiful universe we live in, that's been given to us, and here's an example of just how magnificent and encompassing it is. That’s what I would like to do. I think that’s one of the greatest things you can do in life, and we all try to do it in some way. The musician’s is through his music. — John Coltrane · 1962One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain. — Bob Marley · 1971Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? — Michael Torke · 1990Music alone with sudden charms can bind
The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind. — William Congreve · 1703It is only that which cannot be expressed otherwise that is worth expressing in music. — Frederick Delius · 1920Without music, life would be a mistake. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1889All 8 quotes →Artistic expression2 quotes
If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. — Charlie Parker · 1955I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · 1777Jazz2 quotes
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm. — Jelly Roll Morton · 1950They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. — Charlie Parker · 1949Art1 quote
Even the most insensitive hit song enthusiast cannot always escape the feeling that the child with a sweet tooth comes to know in the candy store. — Theodor Adorno · 1938Creative expression1 quote
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. — Charlie Parker · 1955Creativity1 quote
I am happier when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · 1777Excess1 quote
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 · 1602Human voice1 quote
The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice. — Richard Wagner · 1851Liberation1 quote
Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. — Frederick Douglass · 1845Limits of language1 quote
It is only that which cannot be expressed otherwise that is worth expressing in music. — Frederick Delius · 1920Love1 quote
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 · 1602Music as balm1 quote
One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain. — Bob Marley · 1971Nature of music1 quote
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. — Charlie Parker · 1949Popular culture1 quote
Even the most insensitive hit song enthusiast cannot always escape the feeling that the child with a sweet tooth comes to know in the candy store. — Theodor Adorno · 1938Singing1 quote
The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice. — Richard Wagner · 1851Slave songs1 quote
Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. — Frederick Douglass · 1845Slavery1 quote
Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. — Frederick Douglass · 1845Symphony1 quote
The symphony must be like the world; it must embrace everything. — Gustav Mahler · 1907The universe1 quote
I think the main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe. That's what music is to me-it's just another way of saying this is a big, beautiful universe we live in, that's been given to us, and here's an example of just how magnificent and encompassing it is. That’s what I would like to do. I think that’s one of the greatest things you can do in life, and we all try to do it in some way. The musician’s is through his music. — John Coltrane · 1962Therapy1 quote
Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? — Michael Torke · 1990Time1 quote
For time is the medium of narration, as it is the medium of life. Both are inextricably bound up with it, as inextricably as are bodies in space. Similarly, time is the medium of music; music divides, measures, articulates time, and can shorten it, yet enhance its value, both at once. — Thomas Mann · 1924