History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. -Mark Twain
All music is folk music. I ain't ever heard no horse sing a song. -Louis Armstrong
Can we ever have too much of a good thing? -Cervantes, Don Quixote
You can't think and hit at the same time. -Yogi Berra
Sweetest Melodies
Are those that are by
distance made more sweet.
-Wordsworth, Personal Talk
Sometimes it takes a long time to play like yourself. -Miles Davis
The flute is not an instrument which has a good moral effect; it is too exciting. -Aristotle, Politics
Never looks at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -Richard Strauss
I like to see you move with the rhythm; I like to see when you're dancin' from within. -Bob Marley
The mind is a musical instrument with a certain range of tones, beyond which in both directions we have an infinite silence. -John Tyndall(1820-1893)
Days full of wanting. Let them go by without worrying that they do. Stay where you are inside such a pure hollow not. -Rumi
The rest is silence. -Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V, Sc 2
All times are not alike. Cervantes, Don Quixote
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. -Thomas Fuller, History of the Worthies of England
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvellous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? -Pliny the Elder
We see things not as they are, butas we are. -H.M.Tomlinson, Out of Soundings
A composer is someone who goes around forcing their will on unsuspecting air molecules. Often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. -Frank Zappa.
I never practice; I always play. -Wanda Landowska, 1952
Roaming thru the jungles of "oohs" and "ahs", searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats. -Duke Ellington(1899-1974)
Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent. -Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862)
Without music, life would be a mistake. -Nietzche
Servant and master am I: servant of those dead, and master of those living. Through my spirit immortals speak the message that makes the world weep and laugh, and wonder, and love, and worship.
I am Music.
-Anonymous
My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. -Sir Edward Elgar
A painter paints pictures on canvas, but a musician paints pictures on silence. -Leopold Stokowski
Musical Innovation is full of danger to the state, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them. -Plato, The Republic
Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny. -Frank Zappa
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience. -George Szell
Music which can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. -W.H.Auden
I don't care too much about music. What I like is sounds. -Dizzy Gillespie(1917-1993)
See deep enough, and you see musically; the heart of nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it. - Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship
Do you know that our soul is composed of harmony? -Leonardo da Vinci
You are the music while the music lasts. -T.S.Eliot
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. -Sydney Smith, 1814
After playing violin for the cellist Gregor Piatagorsky, Einstein asked, "Did I play well?"
Piatagorsky replied, "You played relatively well".
Too many pieces finish too long after the end. -Igor Stravinsky
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. -Sir Thomas Beecham
I write music with an exclamation point! -Richard Wagner
If music be the food of love; play on. -William Shakespeare
In music the passions enjoy themselves -Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever. -June Masters Bacher
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. -Victor Hugo
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak. -William Congreve
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. -Plato
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. -Thomas Carlyle
