Famous Music Quotes
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Music fathoms the sky.
Only sick music makes money today.
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
Love is the music that fills our souls, resonating with the rhythm of our hearts and bringing harmony to our lives.
Music is the key to the female heart.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Music is the melody whose text is the world.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.