Music Quotes

We have decided to follow the example of the prophets and the fathers of the church and write German hymns for the German people.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

There are two kinds of music – good music and bad music. Good music is music that I want to hear. Bad music is music that I don’t want to hear.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

One good thing about music… when it hits you feel no pain… so hit me with music.

It must be born with a man to be contented to take up with little things. Women have a great advantage that they may take up with little things, without disgracing themselves: a man cannot, except with fiddling. Had I learned to fiddle I should have done nothing else.

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.

Music, the mosaic of the air.