Music Quotes - Page 16

• The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

  Horace

  Play, Strings, Laughed

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• In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.

  Alexander Pope

  Complaining, Strain

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1851). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.145

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• 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; The earth is but the music of the spheres.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Ears, Earth

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Fifteenth”

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• I 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

  Art, Mean, Writing

  Letter to Leopold Mozart, 8 Nov. 1777

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• Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.

  Seth Godin

  Powerful, Records, Movement

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• 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

  Heart, Air, Soul

  William Cowper (1822). “The poems of William Cowper”, p.136

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• Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Ludwig Van Beethoven (2004). “Beethoven: The Man and the Artist”, p.17, 1st World Publishing

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• We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Prayer, Lord, Importance Of Music

  LDS Conference Report, October 1936.

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• Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.

  Carmen McRae

  Inspirational, Yeast, Bread

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• I write music with an exclamation point!

  Richard Wagner

  Writing, Exclamation Points, Inspirational Music

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• Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Beautiful, Piano, Might

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4879, Delphi Classics

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• Listen to and sing the music of heaven.

  William R. Bradford

  Heaven

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• Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God.

  Martin Luther

  Music Is, Gift From God, Glorious

  Martin Luther (1818). “The familiar discourses of dr. Martin Luther, tr. by H. Bell”, p.428

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• Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.

  William Wordsworth

  Sparks, Instinct, Gems

  William Wordsworth (1852). “Complete Poetical Works”, p.137

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• Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

  Alistair Cooke

  Music Is

  Quotedin David PickeringBrewer's Twentieth Century Music (1994).

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• Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.

  George Eliot

  Ears, Pipe, Melody

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.142, Wordsworth Editions

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• Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Imagination, Doe, Sculpture

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1852). “The Optimist: A Series of Essays”, p.61

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• Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

  George Gershwin

  Jazz, Best Things, Gershwin

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• I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

  Stan Getz

  Lying, Believe, Play

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• I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

  Stan Getz

  Perfection, Jazz And Life, Expenses

  Stan Getz (2017). “Stan Getz - Omnibook: For B-flat Instruments”, p.2, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

  Dexter Gordon

  Beautiful, Jazz, Beautiful Words

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• If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.

  Milt Jackson

  Four, Jazz, Chorus

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• Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

  Keith Jarrett

  Art, Jazz, Form

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• Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

  Lee Konitz

  Player, Vocabulary, Work Out

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• Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

  Steve Lacy

  Wine, Experts, Want

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