6,548 Quotes About Music

Music dissipates mystery.

I like your opera - I think I will set it to music

The musical equivalent of St Pancras Station.(on Elgar)

All Bach's last movements are like the running of a sewing machine. (on Bach)

Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.' That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered.

They live, we sleep, we starve, they eat. You must comply with their deceit, don't trust the wolves to guard the sheep. They'll colonize when you close your eyes into a superpower that will never die.

If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war.

It was held that the six great arts – visual art (including architecture and photography), drama, dance, music, film and literature – form a family of related, if largely autonomous, practices: they all work through the aesthetic, all address the imagination, and all are concerned with the symbolic embodiment of human meaning.

Listen within to find shining poetry and hear extraordinary music. You are a work of art.