music quotes

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

“Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.”

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

— William Shakespeare

“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.”

“Love is all you need.”

— Paul McCartney

“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.”

— William Shakespeare

“Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.”

— Mary Kay Ash

“I go wherever my creativity takes me.”

“Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.”

“Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.”

— Christina Aguilera

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. ”

“Philosophy is the highest music.”

“Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. ”

“For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. ”

“If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.”

— Albert Einstein

“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. ”

— John Lennon

“If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.”

— Martin Luther King

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”

— Abraham Maslow

“The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. ”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.”

— Norah Jones

“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
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— Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

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Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
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— Ludwig van Beethoven

“I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.”

“The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. ”

“The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth. ”

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