Music Quotes

You just pick a chord, go twang, and you’ve got music!

Harpists spend ninety percent of their lives tuning their harps and ten percent playing out of tune.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all… music expresses itself.

In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

In the beginning there was rhythm.

The Church knew what the Psalmist knew: music praises God. Music is as well, or better, able to praise Him than the building of a church and all its decoration; it is the Church’s greatest ornament.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Returning in the afternoon, I stretched myself, dead tired, on a hard couch, awaiting the long-desired hour of sleep. It did not come; but I fell into a kind of somnolent state, in which I suddenly felt as though I were sinking in swiftly flowing water. The rushing sound formed itself in my brain into […]