Quotations About Music
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Joseph Addison
The Spectator, 1712
The Spectator, 1712
There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast.
Paul Scott Mowrer
The House of Europe
The House of Europe
Music is an outburst of the soul.
Frederick Delius
Music is what feelings sound like.
Unknown
Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.
Unknown
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
Sergei Rachmaninov
As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.
Psalms 87:7
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.
Victor Hugo
Music is love in search of a word.
Sidonie Gabrielle
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
Rabindranath Tagore
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
William Stafford
When the music changes, so does the dance.
African proverb
I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.
Jelly Roll Morton
Without music, life would be an error.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it.
Bill Conti