Music Quotes

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Ernest Newman

Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Theodore Mungers

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Henry Miller

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Pietro Mascagni

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Thomas Mann

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Witold Lutoslawski

Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Hal A. Lingerman

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Geoffrey Latham

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

James Weldon Johnson

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.

Billy Joel

The history of a people is found in its songs.

George Jellinek

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Pat Conroy

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.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Red Auerbach