Music Is Quotes - Page 17

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

  Martin Luther

  Music, Gift From God, Glorious

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

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• Good music is wine turned to sound

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Wine, Sound

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1541, Delphi Classics

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• Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.

  Yann Martel

  Bird, Mind, Answers

  Yann Martel (1993). “The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios”, Orlando : Harcourt

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• Music isn't about music, it's about life.

  Herbie Hancock

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• There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

  Edith Hamilton

  Music, Beautiful, Failure

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• Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Music, Prayer, Children

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• Sometimes I feel the music is the only medicine.

  Kanye West

  Medicine, Sometimes, Feels

  Song: Crack_Music_, Album: Late Registration, 2005

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• Music is what I love, take that away from me and I really got nothing.

  Mac Miller

  Kids Movie

  Song: Kickin Incredibly Dope Shit Intro, Album: K.I.D.S.

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• There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Music, Father, People

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• Because for me, '60s pop music is amongst the most complicated or complex music because it has so many resonances which strike you. The music itself is often simple, but the way that I interpret it, or the way I think it's interpreted culturally, is very complex.

  Tim Gane

  Simple, Thinking, Way

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• Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory.

  Dick Dale

  Attitude, Stupid, Simple

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• Music is the perfect type of art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Music, Art, Perfect

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.265, Oxford University Press

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• For me, music begins where words end.

  Jean Sibelius

  Ends

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• There are lots of ways to communicate what we know, but few ways to communicate what we feel. Music is one way to communicate emotions.

  Carl Sagan

  Music, Way, Emotion

  Carl Sagan, Tom Head (2006). “Conversations with Carl Sagan”, p.49, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My mum's an opera singer: I grew up watching her get swept up in music and transform herself into characters. She taught me that music is a lifelong journey, and that with every day and every song and every gig you learn something new.

  Katie Noonan

  Song, Art, Character

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• Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Spiritual, Ocean

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• There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Country, Teacher, Passing On

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• Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress.

  Roberta Flack

  Art, Progress, Needs

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• I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.

  Larry Norman

  Christian, Subculture, Feels

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• People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.

  Daphne Zuniga

  Movie, People, Want

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• Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.

  Franz Liszt

  Music, Taken, Style

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• I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

  John Coltrane

  Thinking, People, Patterns

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• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  People, Whole

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• Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

  Iggy Azalea

  Art, Museums

  "Rough edges are part of Iggy Azalea's charm". Interview with Allison Stewart, articles.chicagotribune.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Our sages developed music from time immemorial to take shelter in one's true self. Real music is not for wealth, not for honors, or not even for the joys of the mind - it is a path for realization and salvation.

  Ali Akbar Khan

  Real, Self, Joy

  George Ruckert, Ali Akbar Khan (1998). “The Classical Music of North India: The first years study”, Munshirm Manoharlal Pub Pvt Ltd

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