Quotes about Music, page 11

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.

Quote by Georges Bizet about music

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

Quote by Hector Berlioz about music

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Quote by Hector Berlioz about music

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Quote by Ludwig van Beethoven about music

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Quote by Ludwig van Beethoven about music

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Quote by Ludwig van Beethoven about music

Music before all else and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.

Quote by Paul Verlaine about music

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

Quote by Giuseppe Mazzini about music

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

Quote by Rebecca West about music

I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

Quote by Nat King Cole about music

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

Quote by Nat King Cole about music

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

Quote by Nat King Cole about music

Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Quote by Jean Paul about music

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

Quote by Joseph Maurice Ravel about music

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

Quote by Joseph Maurice Ravel about music

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

Quote by John Millington Synge about music

Number is the Word but is not utterance; it is wave and light, though no one sees it; it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.

Quote by Maurice Druon about music

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.

Quote by Johannes Brahms about music

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity.

Quote by Piotr Ilici Ceaikovski about music

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

Quote by Piotr Ilici Ceaikovski about music