Music Quotes

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watch-tower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination - music, a sunset, may give image to an idea.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears.

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

Not to sink under being man and wife,But get some color and music out of life?

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

Music alone can take you to the Highest!

People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.