The Internet is filled with tons of great quotes from musicians, both past and present. While I personally love to check out cool quotes from my musical heroes, I find it extremely gratifying to read the words of non-musicians regarding the impact that music has had on their lives. This is because non-musicians can sometimes show us a perspective that we (musicians) cannot normally see. Also, I think it’s enlightening to read quotes from intelligent and creative people who speak highly about our art form. Anyway, I hope you find these pearls of wisdom as inspiring as I do. Here we go…
“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most
importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the
keys to learning.”
― Plato
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination
and life to everything.”
― Plato
“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other,
because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the
soul.”
― Plato, The Republic
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”
― Victor Hugo
“Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
“Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed,
if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish
the answer.”
― Confucius
“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
― Confucius
“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.”
― Albert Einstein
“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays
“The only truth is music.”
― Jack Kerouac
“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 every week.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Where words fail, music speaks.”
― Hans Christian Andersen
“Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.”
― Hans Christian Andersen
“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
― Kahlil Gibran
“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine
“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
― Lao Tzu
“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”
― Alphonse de Lamartine
“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”
― Jane Austen, Emma
“You couldn’t not like someone who liked the guitar.”
― Stephen King, The Stand
“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”
― George Eliot
“The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.”
― W.H. Auden, The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955
“I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express,
but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words
what the pure music would have done better.”
― William Faulkner
“With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
― Leo Tolstoy
“Hell is full of musical amateurs.”
― George Bernard Shaw
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