Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hermann von Helmholtz

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

Hermann Hesse

The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.

Hermann Hesse

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Henri Matisse

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

Hoagy Carmichael

Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.

Heinrich Heine

Where words leave off, music begins.

Hilary Duff

Obviously I want my music on the radio and I want my record to do well, but I also have a totally different career, so a lot of people who are in music are just in music and can dedicate all their time to that and I can't do that, so I really want to have both things and I'm just trying to figure out how.

Henry Ward Beecher

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.

Henry Ward Beecher

What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!

Henry Ward Beecher

Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.

Henry Ward Beecher

This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.

Johann Sebastian Bach

The most stupendous miracle in all music.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

Johann Sebastian Bach

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

Johann Sebastian Bach

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

Johannes Brahms

Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.

Johannes Brahms

In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume.

Haruki Murakami

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.

Hans Zimmer

I have all these computers and keyboards and synthesizers, and I rattle away. For instance, with The Lion King I wrote over four hours worth of tunes, and they were really pretty -but totally meaningless. So in the end I came up with material I liked. We worked on The Lion King for four years, but I wasn't toying until the last three-and-a-half weeks properly. On Crimson Tide, on the other hand, I just went in and within seconds I knew what I wanted.

Hans Zimmer

What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure

Harlan Howard

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Gustav Mahler

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

John Dryden

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.

John Dryden

Music is inarticulate poesy.

John Logan

Music is the medicine of the mind.

John Lydon

I don't listen to music. I hate music.

John Lydon

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

John Lewis

Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of Thelonious Monk