| Author |
Quotes |
| Aaron Copeland | The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, 'No.' |
| Aaron Copeland | To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. |
| Aaron Copland | When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me. |
| Aldous Huxley | After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. |
| Aldous Huxley | After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. |
| Amiel | Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven. |
| Antonin Dvorak | Mozart is sweet sunshine. |
| Aretha Franklin | I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music. |
| Beethoven | Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. |
| Benjamin Britten | It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony. |
| Anonymous | Life is a song. Love is the music. |
| Bible | Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the cornerstone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? |
| Bible | We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. |
| Billy Gibbons | Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear. |
| Bryan Ferry | Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. |
| Edwin Arnold | That rich celestial music thrilled the air From hosts on hosts shining ones, who thronged Eastward and westward, making bright the night. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river. |
| Elvis Presley | I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. |
| Elvis Presley | There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. |
| Frank Sinatra | May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine. |
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