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Quotes and aphorisms on music, a collection of the best quotes on music by famous authors, artists and musicians to better understand the eternal magic of music.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ezra Pound informs us that perhaps music is the bridge between the conscious and the unthinking, sentient, and even insentient universe. It’s essentially the bridge between our imbecility and that of the universe, which is why certain singers are so successful.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Sic mea fata canendo solor \/ ut nece proxima facit olor. (By singing I console myself for my sad fate \/ like a swan close to death).<\/span>
\nVarious Authors, Carmina burana, 13th century<\/span><\/p>\n

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.<\/span>
\nJoseph Addison<\/span><\/p>\n

I didn’t have nothin’ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.<\/span>
\nEminem<\/span><\/p>\n

The music transports me into a world\u00a0where the pain does not cease to exist,\u00a0but widens, subsides,\u00a0becomes both calmer and deeper,\u00a0like a stream that turns into a lake.<\/span><\/div>\n
Marguerite Yourcenar.<\/span><\/div>\n

Music inflames temperament.<\/span>
\nJim Morrison<\/span><\/p>\n

There is the music of Heaven in all things.<\/span>
\nHildegard von Bingen<\/span><\/p>\n

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.<\/span>
\nBerthold Auerbach<\/span><\/p>\n

Where words fail, music speaks.<\/span>
\nHans Christian Andersen<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.<\/span>
\nJoseph Addison<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps music is so successful because it has no meaning; it is merely a splendid and disappointing signifier.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

There is two kinds of music; the good and bad. I play the good kind.<\/span>
\nLouis Armstrong <\/span><\/p>\n

What we play is life.<\/span>
\nLouis Armstrong<\/span><\/p>\n

Music helps not to hear inside the silence that is outside.<\/span>
\nJohann Sebastian Bach<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, music heralds… the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.<\/span>
\nJacques Attali <\/span><\/p>\n

Literature, like music, is certainly a drug, but it improves brain activity. In some cases, that is. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.<\/span>
\nW. H. Auden<\/span><\/p>\n

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.<\/span>
\nLauren Bacall<\/span><\/p>\n

Hildegard, the human soul is \u2018symphonic\u2019; music is part of the profound nature.<\/span>
\nHildegard von Bingen<\/span><\/p>\n

A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.<\/span>
\nSir Thomas Beecham<\/span><\/p>\n

September 1998. Lucio Battisti dies, a great poet who, through his songs, even managed to give a certain dignity to banality. He was a musical beacon for many generations, and even Carl William Brown paid him a great tribute in the distant 1980s by purchasing a compilation of Battisti’s greatest hits, made in Naples, from a Moroccan in a bar in Brescia.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.<\/span>
\nSir Thomas Beecham<\/span><\/p>\n

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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.<\/span>
\nSir Thomas Beecham<\/span><\/p>\n

This is nothing more than a pilgrim’s journey to the sanctuary of stupidity. He’s not in good company, so he listens to the advice of the wise men of the past and some rebellious, melancholy music.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn’t give a damn what goes on in between.<\/span>
\nSir Thomas Beecham<\/span><\/p>\n

She was one of those people who said “I don’t know anything about music, but I know what I like.”<\/span>
\nMax Beerbohm<\/span><\/p>\n

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.<\/span>
\nLudwig Van Beethoven<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, in middle school I had such a terrible teacher that in three years he couldn’t even teach us musical notation.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.<\/span>
\nLudwig Van Beethoven<\/span><\/p>\n

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I’d try a revolver first.<\/span>
\nJosh Billings<\/span><\/p>\n

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.<\/span>
\nNapoleon Bonaparte<\/span><\/p>\n

Music can be a sort of therapy, but we live on earth and till we are here there is not a definitive, complete and satisfactory treatment. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.<\/span>
\nJohn Christian Bovee <\/span><\/p>\n

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Britten<\/span><\/p>\n

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him – if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.<\/span>
\nPeter Stephen Paul Brook<\/span><\/p>\n

A friend of mine, when he heard I was writing a book about stupidity, said to me, \u201cYou know, to increase your productivity, you should listen to music.\u201d I asked him what kind of music, and smiling he confidently replied, \u201cA little bit of everything is more than fine.\u201d<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can’t play my stuff. It’s too complicated.<\/span>
\nJames Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.<\/span>
\nLudwig Van Beethoven<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve outdone anyone you can name – Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.<\/span>
\nJames Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.<\/span>
\nSamuel Butler<\/span><\/p>\n

As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn’t dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn’t have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive — and it still informs other kinds of music.<\/span>
\nDavid Byrne<\/span><\/p>\n

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of “culture.”<\/span>
\nJohn Cage <\/span><\/p>\n

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.<\/span>
\nAlbert Camus<\/span><\/p>\n

Sound is the counterpart of silence, we need both of them, at least till we live.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don’t think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.<\/span>
\nMariah Carey<\/span><\/p>\n

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.<\/span>
\nThomas Carlyle<\/span><\/p>\n

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.<\/span>
\nThomas Carlyle<\/span><\/p>\n

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.<\/span>
\nThomas Carlyle<\/span><\/p>\n

Song is the heroics of speech.<\/span>
\nThomas Carlyle<\/span><\/p>\n

For most people, love is nothing more than a mild and sometimes dangerous existential anesthetic, just like football, drugs, entertainment, art, and music.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s a marvelous feeling when someone says “I want to do this song of yours” because they’ve connected to it. That’s what I’m after.<\/span>
\nMary Chapin Carpenter<\/span><\/p>\n

Alas! all music jars when the soul’s out of tune.<\/span>
\nMiguel De Cervantes<\/span><\/p>\n

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.<\/span>
\nE. M. Cioran<\/span><\/p>\n

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.<\/span>
\nJean Cocteau<\/span><\/p>\n

Music has charms to soothe the savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.<\/span>
\nWilliam Congreve<\/span><\/p>\n

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.<\/span>
\nPat Conroy<\/span><\/p>\n

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.<\/span>
\nAlistair Cooke<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.<\/span>
\nBill Cosby<\/span><\/p>\n

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.<\/span>
\nNoel Coward<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.<\/span>
\nMiles Davis <\/span><\/p>\n

Good music is very close to primitive language.<\/span>
\nDenis Diderot<\/span><\/p>\n

Composers shouldn’t think too much – it interferes with their plagiarism.<\/span>
\nHoward Dietz<\/span><\/p>\n

The high note is not the only thing.<\/span>
\nPlacido Domingo<\/span><\/p>\n

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.<\/span>
\nJames Duffecy<\/span><\/p>\n

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