Music Quotes - Page 8

• A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

  Thomas Beecham

  Men, Classical Music

  In H. Proctor-Gregg Beecham Remembered (1976) pt. 2, p. 154

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• We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dance, Dancing, Autism

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.198, Penguin

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• You blows who you is.

  Louis Armstrong

  Blow, Jazz, Who You Are

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• There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

  Frank Zappa

  Love, Marriage, Song

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• Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

  Mickey Hart

  Uplifting, Soul, Music Love

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• We are in a position, as musicians, to touch the souls of those who listen.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Soul, Musician, Position

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Music should never be harmless.

  Robbie Robertson

  Musical, Jazz, Should

  "The Men return to their noisy roots with the tense Devil Music" by Matt Williams, music.avclub.com. November 11, 2016.

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• I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

  Elvis Presley

  Witty, Humorous, Redneck

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984)

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• I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

  John Lennon

  Art, Resentment, Idiot

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• The cause of freedom, in music as elsewhere, is now very nearly triumphant; but at a time when its adversaries were many and powerful, we can hardly imagine the sacred bridge of liberty kept by a more stalwart trio than Schubert the Armorer, Chopin the Refiner, and Liszt the Thunderer.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Powerful, Bridges, Liberty

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1873). “Music and Morals”, p.298, London : Strahan

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• I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.

  Charles Lamb

  Thinking, Tunes, Harmony

  'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'A Chapter on Ears'

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• Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Sensual

  Attributed to Ludwig van Beethoven by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Goethe (May 28, 1810), as quoted in Bettina von Arnim "Goethe's Correspondence with a Child", 1835.

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• Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.

  Ron Carter

  Art, Creativity, People

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• A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

  Ernest Newman

  Found, Composer, Funny Music

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• It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Taken, Play, Smooth Jazz

  Quoted in N Hentoff Jazz Is (1978).

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• Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

  Horace Walpole

  Children, Would Be, Endeavor

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• The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as the one art peculiarly representative of our modern world, with its intense life, complex civilization, and feverish self-consciousness.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Art, Self, Civilization

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1873). “Music and Morals”, p.10, London : Strahan

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• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Art, Inspiration, Angel

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• ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Silence, Ears, Care

  'The Habit of Perfection' (written 1866)

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• Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

  Slash

  Jazz, Explosions, Stifling

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• Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Encouragement, Art, Passion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

  Louis Armstrong

  Memories, Night, Long Ago

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• Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

  George Jean Nathan

  Art, Mad, Literature

  George Jean Nathan, Arnold Leslie Lazarus (1990). “A George Jean Nathan Reader”, p.79, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• 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

  Song, Essence, Piano

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.247

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