Quotes on Musical Life

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

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

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

If music be the food of love, play on.

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.

Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

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

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

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

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

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.