Music

(38 votes)   Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me

George Eliot
English Victorian Novelist

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(38 votes)   Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Vance Packard
1914-, American Journalist, Writer

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(38 votes)   The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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(37 votes)   Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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(37 votes)   Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Geoffrey Latham

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(36 votes)   It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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(35 votes)   He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(35 votes)   I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

James Brown
1933-, American Musician, Singer, Bandleader, Songwriter

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(35 votes)   Sometimes you have to fight with music.

Bob Marley
1945-1981, Jamaican Musician - songwriter, guitarist & Activist

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(34 votes)   I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

James Taylor

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(34 votes)   If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Simon Rattle

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(34 votes)   Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

James Duffecy

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(34 votes)   Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Claude Levi-Strauss
1908-, French Anthropologist

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(34 votes)   The history of a people is found in its songs.

George Jellinek

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(34 votes)   The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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