Quotes about Music

The rude sea grew civil at her song,
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres
To hear the sea-maid's music.

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit.  It can go beyond language, beyond age and beyond color... straight to the heart and mind of all people.

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

Kind words are the music of the world.

After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four--

And the universe came into being.

It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles.

Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.

We have fallen into the place where everything is music.

Music is spiritual.  The music business is not.

Music my rampart, and my only one.

In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide.

Where words fail, music speaks.

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers.

In an age of computer-driven, sampled mathematical timing and execution, the subtle slipping and sliding of humanly-executed music from fretboard and keyboard are still what excites me the most in music.  The flute, like the violin, is never going to be perfectly in tune.  But the induced expression, vibrato, tone colours and dynamics are what make it all come alive.

I think there's something strangely musical about noise.

Architecture is Frozen Music

Philosophy is the highest music.

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.

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

If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.

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

I let my music take me where my heart wants to go.

I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me away from church and community worship to the internal journey.  Before my recovery began, I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter.

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

I held a blue flower in my hand, probably a wild aster, wondering what its name was, and then thought that human names for natural things are superfluous.  Nature herself does not name them.  The important thing is to know this flower, look at its color until the blueness becomes as real as a keynote of music.

It's very difficult to explain the effect the first blues record I heard had on me, except to say that I recognized it immediately.  It was as if I were being reintroduced to something that I already knew, maybe from another, earlier life.  For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

You are my sunshine!

I never bite off more than I can chew but then she came and bit me. I never bite off more than I can chew but then she bit my leg. She said "Don't wanna work, I wanna play and live my life like it was Sunday. The only problem is that Sunday only comes now once a week and I'm a freak."

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.

There is no religion but sex and music.

"I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend-without a song.' So I keep singing a song."