Music - The one incorporeal entrance
into the higher world of knowledge
which comprehends mankind but which
mankind cannot comprehend.
?Beethoven
The key to the mystery of a great artist is
that for reasons unknown, he will give
away his energies and his life just to make
sure that one note follows another . . .
and leaves us with the feeling
that something is right in the world.
?Leonard Bernstein
A musicologist is a man who can
read music but can't hear it.
?Sir Thomas Beecham
The whole problem can be stated quite
simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to
music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And
'Can you state in so many words what the meaning
is?" My answer to that would be, 'No.'
?Aaron Copeland
I don't know anything about music.
In my line you don't have to.
?Elvis Presley
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
?Mark Twain
Music with dinner is an insult both
to the cook and the violinist.
?G K Chesterton
Of all noises, I think music
is the least disagreeable.
?Samuel Johnson
Classical music is the kind we keep
thinking will turn into a tune.
?Kin Hubbard
Music makes one feel so romantic -
at least it always gets on one's nerves -
which is the same thing nowadays.
?Oscar Wilde
I think I should have no other mortal wants,
if I could always have plenty of music. It seems
to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into
my brain. Life seems to go on without
effort, when I am filled with music.
?George Eliot
After silence, that which comes nearest to
expressing the inexpressible is music.
?Aldous Huxley
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different
drummer. Let him step to the music which
he hears, however measured or far away.
?Henry David Thoreau
Take a music bath once or twice a week for
a few seasons, and you will find that it is to
the soul what the water bath is to the body.
?Oliver Wendell Holmes
From the persistence of noise comes the
insistence of rage. From the emergence of
tone comes the divergence of thought. From
the enlightenment of music comes
the wisdom of... silence.
?Visions of Gregorian Chants
Music . . .can name the unnameable
and communicate the unknowable.
?Leonard Bernstein
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
?Robert Fripp
There is nothing more notable in Socrates
than that he found time, when he was an
old man, to learn music and dancing,
and thought it time well spent.
?Montaigne
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
?Thomas Carlyle
To stop the flow of music would be
like the stopping of time itself,
incredible and inconceivable.
?Aaron Copeland
The best, most beautiful, and most
perfect way that we have of expressing
a sweet concord of mind to
each other is by music.
?Jonathan Edwards
All the sounds of the earth are like music.
?Oscar Hammerstein II
