Random Quotes on Music

[Tom Karol]

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

If a composer could say what he had to say in words, he would not bother trying to say it in music.
- Gustav Mahler

Music is what feelings sound like.
- Author Unknown

Music is the poetry of the air.
- Richter

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
- Sydney Smith

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.
- William P. Merrill

If in the afterlife, there is not music, we will have to import it.
- Doménico Cieri Estrada

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
- Ludwig van Beethoven

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.
- Edward Elgar

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
- Charlie Parker

Play the music, not the instrument.
- Author Unknown

If you play one wrong note, it’s a mistake. If you play two wrong notes, it’s Jazz.
- Author Unknown

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't got the joke yet.
- Oliver Herford

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

Music is an outburst of the soul.
- Frederick Delius

Music is what life sounds like.
- Eric Olson

When words leave off, music begins.
- Heinrich Heine

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
- Leo Tolstoy

Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
- Aaron Copland

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
- Benny Green

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides!
- Artur Schnabel

The pause is as important as the note.
- Truman Fisher

Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven.
- Lawrence Duncan

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

Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
- Richard Strauss

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
- John Erskine

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
- Kin Hubbard

Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
- Henry Louis Mencken

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
- Jules Combarieu

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Edgar Wilson Nye

My music is best understood by children and animals.
- Igor Stravinsky

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosphy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks, and invents.
- Ludwig van Beethoven

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer

Music theory only seems like rocket science when you don't know it. Once you understand it, it's more like plumbing!
- John McGann

That soaring feeling, as if you'd just sailed off the edge of the fixed world with that last note and you haven't the vaguest idea where the next one is coming from or how you'll make it, but even though you'll have to do it a split second from now, you aren’t worried about it!
- Unknown