Music Quotes

"Music is the soul of language."
     -Max Heindel

"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later."
     -Stanley Kubrick

"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

"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

"I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball."
     - Gerald Early

"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it."
     -John Lennon

"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."
     -Richard Milhous Nixon

"A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune."
     -Anonymous.

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
     -Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
     -Thomas Carlyle

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems."
     -Arthur O'Shaunessey

"Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast,
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."
N.B.: This quote is commonly misquoted as "savage beast."
     -William Congreve

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
     -Walter Lippman