Quotes on Music from Taz

Special big whoop to Ludwig van B, the man loved his music! Thought this was an appropriate way to jumpstart your quotes. xx

– If I ever die of a heart attack, I hope it will be from playing my stereo too loud. Anonymous

– Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name

– Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Ludwig van Beethoven

– Without music life would be a mistake. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

– Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Berthold Auerbach

– All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! Thomas Carlyle

– And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done

– He who sings scares away his woes. Cervantes

– There’s music in the sighing of a reed; There’s music in the gushing of a rill; There’s music in all things, if men had ears: Their earth is but an echo of the spheres. Lord Byron

– If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. Sydney Smith

– I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. H.A. Overstreet

– My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. Edward Elgar

– 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

– Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. Henry Ward Beecher

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– 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

– You are the music while the music lasts. T.S. Eliot (This is SO you and Ria!)

– You can’t possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven’s Seventh and go slow. Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket

– The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven’t got the joke yet. Oliver Herford

– Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Victor Hugo

– There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased; With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear; Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies. William Cowper

– Truly to sing, that is a different breath. Rainer Maria Rilke (SATSANG!)

– Music is the shorthand of emotion. Leo Tolstoy

– There is no truer truth obtainable, By Man than comes of music. Robert Browning

– Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific. Aaron Copland

– What passion cannot music raise and quell! John Dryden

– The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. Leonard Bernstein

– Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory Percy Bysshe Shelley

– A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. Benny Green

– The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides! Artur Schnabel

– Rock music in its lyrics often talks ahead of the time about what’s going on in the country. Edmund G. Brown

– Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes. Alfred Lord Tennyson

– The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life… the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril. Richard Baker

– Country music is three chords and the truth. Harlan Howard

– An artist, in giving a concert, should not demand an entrance fee but should ask the public to pay, just before leaving as much as they like. From the sum he would be able to judge what the world thinks of him – and we would have fewer mediocre concerts. Kit Coleman, Kit Coleman: Queen of Hearts

– A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens… if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly… to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it? Charles Ives

– Music is love in search of a word. Sidney Lanier

– It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible. Victor de LaPrade