Quotes on Art And Music

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

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

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

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

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."

Music can change the world because it can change people.

For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Where words leave off, music begins.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.