Music Quotes & Sayings

Music Quotes & Sayings

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A film is, or should be, more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. - Stanley Kubrick



When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument. - Ben Okri



Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only. - Andre Malraux



My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky



We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh, Now you tell me what you know. - Groucho Marx



I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. - Igor Stravinsky



Some to church repair Not for the doctrine, but the music there. [Essay on Criticism] - Alexander Pope



If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brunnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni. - Wystan Hugh Auden



Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentations, laughter, to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to the world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water. - Albert Schweitzer



Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. - Bill Cosby



Electric flesh-arrows, traversing the body. A rainbow of colour strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm. - Anais Nin



Only sick music makes money today. [De., Man macht heute nur Geld mit kranker Musik.] - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche



Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. - Joseph Addison



The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it. - Henry David Thoreau



The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. - John Greenleaf Whittier