Music Quotes

"Enthusiasm is the music of the soul."

"The power of music is equal to all gifts."

"When you hear music, after it has ceased, you can still see it dancing in the air."

"Tones are the words of an universal language."

"Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all possibilities of the creation of beauty."

"The public doesn't want new music; the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead."

"The only love affair I have ever had was with music."

"Music should be something that makes us feel, not something that makes us think."

"In great music there is always a mystery."

"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman."

"To deprive music of operating upon us through the senses is to deprive us of its identity."

"What does music mean to me? Many things."

"Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music."

"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader."

"Forget everything you know about counterpoint and just listen to the harmony."

"My music is best understood by children and animals."

"Evolution implies gradual change in one direction; I do not believe in it in music."

"I have learned that the object and subject of music are not the phenomenon of feeling, but the action of forces."

"Listening to bad music is like reading bad poetry."

"A melody is not merely something to remember; it is a universe in itself."

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

"What we call 'easy listening' is often the hardest to listen to."

"I cannot understand the negativity toward polyphonic music."

"Rhythm is not something that exists independently in time."

"Those who do not study music are deaf to truth."

"To understand music is to understand the nature of time itself."

"In music, as in mathematics, the simplest solution is usually the most elegant."

"One can write a beautiful opera without knowing how to orchestrate, but not without knowing how to compose."

"To understand music is to understand humanity itself."

"Music is the art of prophets and the language of angels."