Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther

Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Martin Luther

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Martin Luther

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Martin Luther

As long as we live there is never enough singing.

Martin Luther

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Martin Luther

The devil does not stay where music is.

Martin Luther

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

Martin Luther

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.

Marilyn Hacker

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

Nick Lowe

A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.

Morton Feldman

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.

Morton Feldman

It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't happen. They must be constructed. ... To demonstrate any formal idea in music, whether structure or stricture, is a matter of construction, in which the methodology is the controlling metaphor of the composition... Only by 'unfixing' the elements traditionally used to construct a piece of music could the sounds exist in themselves-not as symbols, or memories which were memories of other music to begin with.

Mose Allison

The idea was I'd never amount to anything in music, The theme there was that I was talented, but I wouldn't work hard enough to do anything with it.

Missy Elliot

Music should be your escape.

Philip James Bailey

Music tells no truths.

Pharrell Williams

Music is all of a sudden much more colorful.

Pharrell Williams

I think all music is a gift from God.

Peggy Lee

What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

Paulo Coelho

I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or else grave-faced and arrogant, concentrating on absolutely nothing, convinced that they're in touch with God or with the Goddess. So instead, let's listen to some music together.

Mariah Carey

It's a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love if you search within your soul, and the emptiness you felt will disappear.

Nile Rodgers

Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.

Nat King Cole

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

Nat King Cole

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

Nat King Cole

I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

Nas

Let the music diffuse all the tension.

Miranda Lambert

I don't know where 'bro-country' came from or what it really means, but a lot of those guys are my buddies and I support their music, within country there are lots of styles: stone-cold country, like Brandy Clark, and there's Florida Georgia Line with what they do, which is completely different and bringing a whole new audience. There's room for everyone.

Miranda Lambert

Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?

Johnny Griffin

Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.

Johnny Mercer

Day in, day out. That same old voodoo follows me about.

Johnny Mercer

You must have been a beautiful baby, 'Cos baby just look at you now.

Johnny Mercer

Skylark Have you anything to say to me? Won't you tell me where my love can be?