Music in Words: Quotes That Celebrate Sound and Harmony - Page 58

Discover the magic of music through quotes that celebrate its power to heal, inspire, and uplift our souls. Page 58 provides more music quotes.

Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Collection: Music
Image of Rose Macaulay
Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.
- Rose Macaulay
Collection: Music
Image of Henri Matisse
There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
- Henri Matisse
Collection: Music
Image of Reba McEntire
But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper.
- Reba McEntire
Collection: Music
Image of Wynton Marsalis
Jazz music is the power of now.
- Wynton Marsalis
Collection: Music
Image of Abraham Maslow
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.
- Abraham Maslow
Collection: Music
Image of Zicheng Hong
When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure fragrance even without incense or tea.
- Zicheng Hong
Collection: Music
Image of Martin Luther
As long as we live there is never enough singing.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Music
Image of Wynton Marsalis
No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music is like a classic story, like the Iliad-something so perfect it can never be old.
- Wynton Marsalis
Collection: Music
Image of Bob Marley
The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.
- Bob Marley
Collection: Music
Image of Dave Barry
The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.
- Dave Barry
Collection: Music
Image of Lynda Barry
gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.
- Lynda Barry
Collection: Music
Image of Paul McCartney
George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finally I agreed with them
- Paul McCartney
Collection: Music
Image of Tim McGraw
I think of myself as a serious artist. Sometimes you can get in your head too much about that and forget that you have to have fun. I've been guilty in my career about that at times. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought I didn't want anybody else to have a hit with it!
- Tim McGraw
Collection: Music
Image of John Lydon
I don't listen to music. I hate music.
- John Lydon
Collection: Music
Image of James M. Barrie
If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.
- James M. Barrie
Collection: Music
Image of Bob Marley
The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.
- Bob Marley
Collection: Music
Image of Bob Marley
A hungry mob is an angry mob.
- Bob Marley
Collection: Music
Image of Bob Marley
Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.
- Bob Marley
Collection: Music
Image of Martin Luther
I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Music
Image of Dave Matthews
Oh, man, oh how I wish I didn't smoke or drink to reason with my head.
- Dave Matthews
Collection: Music
Image of Martin Luther
Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Music
Image of Martin Luther
Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Music
Image of Martin Luther
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Music
Image of Terry McMillan
I'd crack up without my music. It's the best company you can have, really. It don't say 'no' or 'maybe,' or ask no questions.
- Terry McMillan
Collection: Music
Image of H. L. Mencken
Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Music
Image of Martin Luther
We can mention only one point (which experience confirms), namely, that next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. No greater commendation than this can be found — at least not by us. After all, the gift of language combined with the gift of song was only given to man to let him know that he should praise God with both word and music, namely, by proclaiming [the Word of God] through music.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Music
Image of Wynton Marsalis
In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and vocabulary. There's no right or wrong, just some choices that are better than others.
- Wynton Marsalis
Collection: Music
Image of Wynton Marsalis
A beat is a moment in the life a groove.
- Wynton Marsalis
Collection: Music
Image of Martin Luther
Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter, be without the little skill which I possess in the art.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Music
Image of Sergei Rachmaninoff
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
Collection: Music