Quotes on Music

Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs", searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

Elvis died the day he went into the army.

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

Where words leave off, music begins.

Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.

I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wish to make them better.

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

A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.

The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

As long as we live there is never enough singing.

I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.