Quotebook: Music Quotes

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -Aldous Huxley

There is something else included in music that is very difficult to define. It reminds us of where we were before and where we are going after. It is a mysterious vapour that somehow slips in the cracks between this plane of existance and some other one. The people who are good musicians have the ability to conjure up more of that vapour than others. Everyone recognizes it when it's there. It is something universal that goes beyond language and beyond race, country or nationality. We recognise it as something we all have in common. -Pat Metheny

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. -Oscar Wilde

Music is like a dance partner and they're very fickle and they continuously don't want to dance, and don't keep asking you and you have to approach it with grace and sensitivity, or else it'll just sulk. -Sarah Slean

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. -Voltaire

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -Johann Sebastian Bach

Without music, life would be a mistake. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -Samuel Butler

Music is the vernacular of the human soul. -Geoffrey Latham

I have nothing against vacant pop music, but it's not healthy to live on white bread alone. Sometimes you need to get some whole grains into your system to flush it out. -Rick Valentin

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. -Plato

Christian music makers have to risk new ways of praising God. Their faith must convince them that however strange a new offering may be, it cannot out-reach, out-imagine, or overwhelm God. God remains God, ready to swoop down in the most wonderful way, amidst all of the flurry and mystery of newness and repetition, to touch souls and hearts, all because faith has been exercised and Christ's ways have been imitated. Meanwhile, a thousand tongues will never be enough. -Harold Best

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -Igor Stravinsky

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. -Red Auerbach

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory. -Henry Giles

Don't play what's there, play what's not there. -Miles Davis

Pop music these days is like a bag of Doritos. It's strangely tasty and absolutely everywhere and it doesn't cost much and it's mass produced and it's got a shiny bag, but in reality, it's chemicals and fake cheese, it makes you feel like crap, can't fill you up, rots your belly and it only wants your $1.14. -Sarah Slean

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