Sayings of prominent people about the role of lullabies. Beautiful quotes and aphorisms of great people about music

Rock stars have always been the subject of adoration and imitation. You can't just go ahead and become a rock star. These people have always been individuals who, thanks to their views on life and worldview in general, have become the idols of millions.

In this release: Axl Rose, Bob Marley, Keith Richards, Anthony Kiedis, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Kurt Cobain, Frank Zappa, Thom Yorke, Marilyn Manson, Dave Grohl, Kate Flint, Lemmy, Jon Bon Jovi.

So, what do rock idols think about the world, women, sex, alcohol, love, music, drugs and themselves - in our article:

Quotes from Great Musicians. Volume I."

Axl Rose - Guns'n'Roses

“I am not God. And if he was, then 3/4 of you would be girls, and the rest would be pizza and beer.


In the original:
“I’m not God but if I were God, ¾ of you would be girls, and the rest would be pizza and beer.”

Bob Marley

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet."

In the original:
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”

Keith Richards – The Rolling Stones

“I could never get into bed with a woman just for sex. I'm not interested. I want to hug you and kiss you and make you feel good and protect you. And the next day to get a nice note - be in touch"

In the original:
“I've never been able to go to bed with a women just for sex. I've no interest in that. I want to hug you and kiss you and make you feel good and protect you. And get a nice note the next day, stay in touch.”

P.P.S. By the way, Johnny Depp tried to imitate the walk and manner of talking Keith in the image of Jack Sparrow. And then he asked Richards to play the role of Jack's father in Pirates of the Caribbean. The guitarist agreed.

Anthony Kiedis - Red Hot Chilli Peppers

“It seems that chaos in the world is accelerating, but along with it, beauty in the mind is all more of people"

In the original:

Jimi Hendrix

"When the power of love surpasses the love of power, peace will reign on earth"

Jimmy Page — Led Zeppelin

“Music is like making love. Sometimes you want soft and gentle, and sometimes hard and rough.

Kurt Cobain - Nirvana

"I like to complain and do nothing to improve the situation."

Frank Zappa

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is impossible”

P.S. Frank Zappa is an American composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, songwriter, experimental musician, and sound and film director. "The Man Who Taught Everyone How to Play the Guitar"

Thom Yorke - Radiohead and Atoms For Peace

"I want to be alone and I want people to notice me - both at the same time"

Marilyn Manson

“I discovered a big difference between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, at least you have a purpose. When you don't want to live, you're just devastated"

The collection includes phrases and quotes about music and musicians:

  • I don't know if there is a single great musician who can be said to be outdated. The simplest song coming from the depths of millennia is alive. Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky
  • In music you are always punished when you lie and write out of vanity. Music can only be modest and sincere. Romain Rolland
  • What is music? It occupies a place between thought and appearance; as a pre-dawn mediator she stands between spirit and matter; related to both, it is different from them: it is a spirit in need of measured time; it is matter, but matter which dispenses with space. Heinrich Heine
  • There is something magical about rhythm; he makes us believe that the sublime is ours. Johann Wolfgang Goethe
  • The louder the music, the higher the mood.
  • In an artist, there is absolute truth not in a banal, protocol sense, but in a higher one, which opens up some unknown horizons for us, some inaccessible spheres where only music can penetrate. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Success goes away, but the music remains.
  • The greatness of art is most clearly manifested in music. Johann Wolfgang Goethe
  • All girls have a stupid habit - when they feel bad, finish themselves off with sad music.
  • Everything can be experienced if you choose the right song. Kurt Cobain
  • Thomas Carlyle
  • Voice and melody will always remain the main thing for me. Giuseppe Verdi
  • The secret of music is that it finds an inexhaustible source where speech falls silent. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
  • Dissonance is the greatest power of music. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Modern troubadours do not use mandolins, but car horns. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
  • For me, the phrase "man and song" sounds like "man and air." If there is not enough air, the person suffocates. Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov
  • Words sometimes need music, but music needs nothing. Edvard Grieg
  • There are two refuges from life's troubles: music and cats. Albert Schweitzer.
  • With whom you can listen to music together, you can also have a close relationship. Alex Vedov. chasing the rainbow
  • You know, my friend, in music it happens that the outside world ceases to exist and there is nothing left but sounds that hit you right in the heart. Gaston Leroux. Phantom of the Opera
  • So far, in my life there was not a single person whom I would listen to more than music ...
  • Perfect music is silence, and musicians are busy creating a beautiful frame around this perfection
  • Know the rhythm that is hidden in human life. Archilochus

  • Of all the sciences and arts, music is the oldest. Quintilian
  • The song is a social drum that opens the march and to the beat of which they keep pace. Pierre Jean Beranger
  • The exile of melody is the rejection of the truthful expression of great feelings, the rejection of content, of realism. Tikhon Nikolaevich Khrennikov
  • A lot depends on music: mood, pulse, temperature and further actions.
  • Sometimes a few songs are enough to remember a lifetime.
  • Music has one good quality for sure - when it hits you to the quick, it doesn't hurt you. Bob Marley
  • Everyone in the songs is looking for his story
  • One note does not make a melody, differences are needed. Even disagreements are needed... The beauty of a melody is born from a combination of dissimilarity. Jean Henri Fabre
  • When we perceive rhythm and melody with our ears, our spiritual mood changes. Aristotle
  • The field of music is spiritual unrest. The purpose of music is to arouse these emotions, and she herself is also inspired by them. George Sand
  • When I write my songs, the main thing for me is not to compose music, but to satisfy the innermost intentions of the poet. Edvard Grieg
  • Notes are just the art of writing down ideas, the main thing is to have them. Stendhal
  • Beauty in music does not lie in a heap of effects and harmonic curiosities, but in simplicity and naturalness. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Nothing evokes the past with such force as music; she achieves more: when she invokes it, it seems as if it itself passes before us, shrouded, like the shadows of those who are dear to us, with a mysterious and sad veil. Anna Louise Germaine
  • Love and study the great art of music. It will open to you a whole world of high feelings, passions, thoughts. It will make you spiritually richer. Thanks to music, you will find new powers unknown to you before. You will see life in new tones and colors. Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich
  • Nowhere has a folk song played and does not play such a role as in our people, nowhere has it been preserved in such richness, strength and diversity as it is with us. Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov
  • Melody is the only form of music; without melody, music is unthinkable, and music and melody are inseparable. Richard Wagner
  • The unshakable position of the modern piano is based on its universal use for home assimilation of almost all the treasures of musical literature. Max Weber
  • Melody is not a mixture of sounds, as all those who are not musically gifted believe. Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • I can't imagine my life without music. Music is everything. Will always help when it's bad. Friends and parents may not understand you, but music is always with you, in your heart, and it makes you happy.
  • My mood changes to match the music
  • Don't believe that a person can understand music right away. It's impossible. You have to get used to it first. Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky
  • Music is the only world language, it does not need to be translated, soul speaks to soul in it. Berthold Averbakh
  • Music outside nationality does not exist, and in essence, any music that is considered to be universal is still national. Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Music is the best solace for a sad person. Martin Luther
  • Music ... Time erases the remnants of the old, so only it is eternal!
  • Music is a people's need. Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Music, without mentioning anything, can say everything. Ilya Grigorievich Ehrenburg
  • Music is the mediator between the life of the mind and the life of the senses. Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Music doubles, triples the army. Music is the most poetic, the most powerful, the most living of all the arts. Hector Louis Berlioz
  • Music is a solid foundation for building castles in the air!
  • Music is second only to silence when it comes to expressing the inexpressible. Aldous Huxley
  • Music is life. As long as it sounds, nothing dies forever. The musician, performing music, lives memories as if they were real events. Daniel Glattauer "The Best Remedy for the North Wind"
  • Music with its melody brings us to the very edge of eternity and gives us the opportunity to comprehend its greatness within a few minutes.
  • Music is a higher revelation than wisdom and philosophy. Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Music is like drama. The queen (melody) has more power, but the decision is always with the king. (Interesting quotes about music by Robert Schumann)
  • Music is the mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

  • Music unites the moral, emotional and aesthetic spheres of a person. Music is the language of feelings. Vasily Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinsky
  • Music is shorthand for feelings. Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
  • Music cannot think, but it can embody thought. Richard Wagner
  • Music has more to do with the moral actions of man than is commonly thought. Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky
  • Music makes me forget myself, my true position, it takes me to some other position, not my own; under the influence of music it seems to me that I feel what I don’t actually feel, that I understand what I don’t understand, that I can do what I can’t ... She, music, immediately immediately transfers me directly to that state of mind in which was the one who wrote the music. I merge with him in soul and together with him I am transferred from one state to another. Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
  • Music washes away the dust of everyday life from the soul. Berthold Auerbach
  • Music is the unconscious exercise of the soul in arithmetic. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  • Music drowns out sadness. William Shakespeare
  • Music should play the same role in relation to a poetic work that the brightness of colors plays in relation to a precise drawing. Christoph Willibald Gluck
  • Music should strike fire from people's hearts. Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Music for me is the same poetry, and of all kinds of poetry, it is the most captivating. Romain Rolland
  • Music is dear to us because it is the deepest expression of the soul, the harmonic echo of its joys and sorrows. Romain Rolland
  • Music expresses what we cannot say and what it is impossible to remain silent about.
  • Music is a treasury into which every nationality contributes its own, for the common good. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Music inspires the whole world, furnishes the soul with wings, promotes the flight of the imagination; music gives life and fun to everything that exists ... It can be called the embodiment of everything beautiful and everything sublime. Plato
  • Music can console, especially people with a sensitive soul, who have not yet forgotten how to feel, sympathize, worry, have not become cynics. Ennio Morricone
  • Music is the language of the soul; it is the realm of feelings and moods; it is the life of the soul expressed in sounds. Alexander Nikolaevich Serov
  • Music is not only an ennobling and educational factor. Music is the healer of health. Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev
  • Music is intelligence embodied in beautiful sounds.
  • Music encourages us to think eloquently. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Music is the pair of art. It is to the art of poetry what dreams are to thought, what to the ocean of waves is the ocean of clouds above it. Victor Marie Hugo
  • Music shows a person the possibilities of greatness that are in his soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Music is a constant in our lives. You hear a song and immediately remember a certain moment, place or even a person. The world changes, but the song remains, like your memory. And it's amazing.
  • Music is capable of exerting a certain influence on the ethical side of the soul; and since music has such properties, then, obviously, it should be included in the number of subjects for the education of young people. Aristotle
  • Music is the universal language of mankind. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Music, just like any other human language, must be inseparable from the people, from the soil of this people, with its historical development. Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov
  • Music is the poetry of the air. Jean Paul
  • Music is terrible when there is no tact or measure in it. William Shakespeare
  • Music is a science that talks about the numbers found in sounds. Alcuin Flakk Albin

Always play as if the artist is listening to you.

"R. Schuman"

A lot depends on music: mood, pulse, temperature and further actions.

Music is capable of exerting a certain influence on the ethical side of the soul; and since music has such properties, then, obviously, it should be included in the number of subjects for the education of young people.

"Aristotle"

O music! Echo of a distant harmonious world! Sigh of an angel in our soul! When the word fades, and the hug, and the eye filled with tears, when our dumb hearts languish alone behind the bars of our chest - oh, then only thanks to you can they send each other a response from their prisons, unite their distant moans in one desert.

"Jean Paul"

Music is truly a universal language.

"R. Wagner"

When I get sad, I turn on AC / DC or Slipknot headphones and after a couple of songs I don't give a damn, because life is beautiful!

Writing music is not so difficult, the hardest thing is to cross out extra notes.

"AND. Brahms"

I don’t want to think about anything and decide something, I want music for the whole and dance.

When I listen to certain music, it seems to me that my heart can burst from nostalgia.

I feel my heart beat to the beat of my favorite song.

"Giuseppe Verdi"

Of all the arts, music is the most human and widespread.

"BUT. Akhmatova

Even at school, I wanted to study music and play a musical instrument, I especially liked the sound of the piano.

"Victor Sizov"

Opera is the fullest form of music as an art.

"Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky"

Love and study the great art of music. It will open to you a whole world of high feelings, passions, thoughts. It will make you spiritually richer. Thanks to music, you will find new powers unknown to you before. You will see life in new tones and colors.

"D. Shostakovich"

Appreciate the music. Live it every day. She helps to live. Move forward towards your goal.

With music, the length of the path is halved.

Music is a mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

"Aristotle"

Chose, listened to music. And suddenly I thought: the best is your voice.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

"David Byrne"

The female body is the magic flute of Krishna, blessed is he who knows how to extract divine music from it.

Thanks to the music that was at the moment when no one was there.

I do not know of greater happiness for a composer than to write a simple song, which in five or ten years will become popular, and meanwhile the name of its creator will be forgotten.

"Richard Strauss"

Music needs words as little as sculpture.

"Anton Rubinstein"

Saxophone. This instrument is worthy of a whole ode in its honor, but emotions overwhelm and words are not enough.

Music is the unconscious exercise of the soul in arithmetic.

"G. Leibniz"

Some need drugs, some need alcohol. And I have enough music.

If the melody cannot be remembered immediately, then it is no good.

"Giuseppe Verdi"

My music is best understood by children and animals.

"Igor Stravinsky"

Real music turns any event, action, feeling into something perfect, into something that you want to fall in love with. It is in it, as in no other art, that vitality and inspiration are manifested.

"AND. Goethe"

What is music? It occupies a place between thought and appearance; like a pre-dawn mediator, she stands between spirit and matter; related to both, it is different from them; this is a spirit in need of measured time; it is matter, but matter which dispenses with space.

Without music life would be a mistake.

"Friedrich Nietzsche"

As a person who is well versed in drugs, I tell you, there is no more powerful drug in the world than music.

The song is a social drum that opens the march and to the beat of which they keep pace.

"Pierre Jean Beranger"

Music Quotes

It is best to listen to music with your eyes closed, then you understand what the author wanted to convey, or what he felt at that moment.

Music is not only an ennobling and educational factor. Music is the healer of health."

"AT. Bekhterev"

If big sport were good for health, instead of a piano in the apartment of every Jew, there would be a barbell.

They say music saves. But I have heard more than once that when people had difficult periods in their lives, when their soul ached. They couldn't listen to her at all. It got even harder.

First of all, I love music for memories.

"T. Carlyle"

Note to yourself when they rush wildly
In the steppes, herds or young horses
Dashing herd - they jump madly,
They roar and neigh - then the blood plays in them.
Hot. But they should hear
Only the sound of a trumpet or some other
The sound of music - how the dead will become
Instantly everything, and a wild look
Under the power of a lovely melody
It will pass into humility and meekness.

"U. Emerson"

Going out without headphones is like going into space without oxygen.

"Plato"

Music is the true universal human speech.

"TO. J. Weber»

Music with its melody brings us to the very edge of eternity and gives us the opportunity to comprehend its greatness within a few minutes.

"T. Carlyle"

The best music will have an unenviable fate if it trusts mediocre poetry.

"R. Wagner"

Great composers have always and above all paid attention to melody as the leading principle in music. Melody is music, the main foundation of all music, since perfect melody implies and brings to life its harmonious arrangement.

Music is a part of our life, a part of every person. In this or that musical direction, he seeks self-expression and strives for self-knowledge. Music helps to have fun, it can also make you think and help you get to know your inner world better. We offer you an interesting selection of quotes, aphorisms and sayings about music that will help you understand how important music is in life.

Music is immortal. Whoever believes that listening to old songs is not fashionable, he not only understands nothing in music, he does not understand anything in life either. The music that performers give from the heart is eternal. Proof of this is the work of legendary bands and performers. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine published the article Immortals: The 50 Greatest Performers of All Time. This list includes such legendary names as the Beatles, Elvis Presley, Bob Marley, Nirvana, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Elton John, Quinn, Tina Turner and others. As for the Russian stage, it also has its own luminaries. Among them are Alla Pugacheva, Philip Kirkorov, Valery Leontiev, the Tender May group, and others.

There are many musical styles and trends, but the love of music should always start with the classics. Among the most famous composers who created brilliant works, it is worth mentioning such names as L. Beethoven, A. Mozart, J. Bach, J. Strauss, P. Tchaikovsky, F. Schubert.

Music drowns out sadness (W. Shakespeare).

But sad music can only strengthen it.

Music is the universal language of humanity (Longfellow).

We can listen to the music of other peoples without the need for translation.

The greatness of art is most clearly manifested in music. (Goethe).

Neither painting nor sculpture leaves as many memories as music.

Without music life would be a mistake (F. Nietzsche).

Maybe without music, there would be no life - people would die of longing.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture (D. Byrne).

Music needs to be listened to, and the soul will talk about it.

Music is a powerful source of thought. Without musical education, full mental development is impossible. (V. Sukhomlinsky).

Musical education should begin at birth.

Music cannot think, but it can embody thought. (R. Wagner).

Music with thoughts is not necessarily music and words, sometimes a melody without words embodies much more thoughts than with them.

Aphorisms

Music always plays to win, even when it's sad.

RaHappiness and sadness go hand in hand with music...

Music is not a hobby for me, not even a passion. Music is me.

Everyone finds their reflection in music.

Music is a natural sedative.

No sedative will soothe you like music.

Music is shorthand for feelings.

Music reflects all feelings, emotions and achievements.

Music is the poetry of the air.

Notes can be written on paper, but the music itself can only be in the air and live in the hearts.

Living without music is like breathing without air.

Who does not love music, he does not live.

Music is something worth having ears for.

This is an art that cannot be comprehended with the eyes.

Quotes of great people and musicians

Classical music is the basis of a civilized society. And a sign of a refined mind (Henry Morgan).

Musical taste is, first of all, a love for the classics.

Music is the mediator between the life of the mind and the life of the senses. Music is a higher revelation than wisdom and philosophy (L. Beethoven).

Philosophy is different for everyone, but music is the same for everyone.

Music is the best solace for a sad person (M. Luther).

Oddly enough, but when we feel bad, we turn on sad music, but it makes it more fun.

Music, like rain, seeps into the heart drop by drop and revives it. (R. Rolland).

Music can heal wounds.

The purpose of music is to touch hearts (I. Bach).

And to penetrate into the soul ...

Music rules autocratically and makes you forget about everything else (W. Mozart).

She leaves a mark on the soul that never fades.

Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between them (W. Mozart).

About music and soul

Music is not Bach, and not Beethoven, but a can opener for opening the soul.

No one and nothing can penetrate the soul like music.

Music brings peoples and nationalities together, destroys the language barrier.

Genius, opening the lid of the piano, opens the souls wide open to everyone!

And only the insensitive and soulless remain indifferent to music.

Only the greatest art - music - can touch the depths of the soul.

Music not only excites the blood, but also touches the soul for the living.

Music is the only world language, it does not need to be translated, soul speaks to soul in it.

Literature is translated - meaning and original essence are lost, and music always retains its authenticity.

Music washes away the dust of everyday life from the soul.

Music heals and cleanses a person.

Music alone is the language of the world and does not need translation, for it speaks to the soul.

The soul is able to understand music without any translators.

About rock music

When Choi died, everyone became rockers. Died MichaelJackson - popovikami. Cheers, Elton John!

Musicians die, music remains forever alive.

Rock is the ability to bring freedom into the world, into the minds of people.

If you want to feel freedom - go to a rock concert.

Rock is movement, it is history, it is truth and freedom, it is a force that can move mountains and unite common efforts. In rock there is no place for hypocrisy, window dressing, parody, lies. Rock is not just music. Rock music is life.

Listening to rock, you want to live and create, and not sit and do nothing.

Rock should be hard enough for guys and cute enough for girls. This way everyone will be happy and there will be much more fun.

Music drowns out sadness.
William Shakespeare


Music is not learned from books. She is around us.
August Rush


If a person is not philanthropic, what will he understand in music?
Confucius


Music should strike fire from people's hearts.
Ludwig van Beethoven


Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
Frank Zappa or David Byrne


Of the pleasures of a life of love alone, music yields. But love is a melody...
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin


There is a beautiful thing about music - when it hits you, you don't feel pain.
Bob Marley


Music is the best solace for a sad person.
Martin Luther


Music should be an outlet for the senses. Music gives vent to emotions, as it should be.
Matthew Bellamy


Music is the mediator between the life of the mind and the life of the senses.
Ludwig van Beethoven


Music is my religion.
Jimi Hendrix


Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono


Music is the source of joy for wise people.
Xun Tzu


Where words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Andersen


Music is the voice of a special spirit, whose task is to collect the dreams of the world, and which, passing through the minds of people, is able to settle, even for a short time, their discords, or shake souls, destroying social inconveniences.
Adriano Celentano


Music, like rain, drop by drop, seeps into the heart and enlivens it.
Romain Rolland


Music ennobles morals.
Aristotle


Music is the greatest consolation: it refreshes the heart and gives it peace.
Martin Luther


Let a person walk to the music that he hears, no matter what rhythm it sounds.
Henry Thoreau


Music is God's little reminder that there is something bigger in this world than us. A harmonic link between all living things... and the stars.
August Rush


Music is a science that talks about the numbers found in sounds.
Flaccus Albin Alcuin


Music is the only world language, it does not need to be translated, soul speaks to soul in it.
Berthold Averbakh


Music is an unedited part of you.
Matthew Bellamy


Perfect music brings the heart into exactly the same state as one experiences when enjoying the presence of a beloved being, that is, music gives, undoubtedly, the brightest happiness that is possible on earth.
Stendhal


Music is the only language of the world.
Obsessed with a dream


Music inspires the whole world, furnishes the soul with wings, promotes the flight of the imagination; music gives life and fun to everything that exists ... It can be called the embodiment of everything beautiful and everything sublime.
Plato


Music is higher than all revelations of wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven


For some - in truth, the majority - music encourages and comforts; others find in it the desired dissolution, an unexpected way to lose themselves, to plunge into what is best in the world.
Emil Michel Cioran


Music washes away the dust of everyday life from the soul.
Berthold Averbakh


Spiders love music just like most of our composers, if you understand...
Eric Satie


What did Berlioz say with his music? - nothing; but how amazing he said it.
James Huenecker


The ideal music is silence, and the musicians are busy creating a beautiful frame around this perfection.
Sting


Playing music is almost the same as flying through the sky.
Haruki Murakami


Music is the stuff of emotions.
Matthew Bellamy


The greatness of art is most clearly manifested in music.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe


Music is shorthand for feelings.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy


I never dreamed of becoming a musician, I did not study music very diligently, and the thought of being a sailor captivated me. Indeed, my parents wanted to send me to the Naval Corps, since my uncle, Nikolai Petrovich, and my brother were sailors.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov


If both my hands are cut off, I will still write music with a pen in my mouth.
Dmitry Shostakovich


Only music has the power to shape character... Through music, one can teach oneself to develop the right feelings.
Aristotle


Theories can be very beautiful. But an artist must compose music not according to theories. He must feel the musical beauty in his heart, he must deeply feel what he composes.
Maurice Ravel


Give me the laundry bill and I'll set it to music.
Gioacchino Rossini


Nothing recalls the past like music; it not only reminds him, but evokes him, and like the shadows of those dear to us, it appears wrapped in a mysterious and melancholy haze.
Anne-Louise Germaine de Stael


To love music, you must first listen to it.
Dmitry Shostakovich


Great music, I am convinced of this, always comes from the heart.
Maurice Ravel


Music cannot think, but it can embody thought.
Richard Wagner


Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Frank Zappa


Only music that can cause fainting is worth listening to.
Emil Michel Cioran


Words sometimes need music, but music needs nothing.
Edvard Grieg


Music forms the middle between thought and appearance.
Heinrich Heine


Music is the highest art in the world.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy


Music is the most powerful form of magic.
Marilyn Manson


I write about my life and I write about what I think and you know every song is different. There are love songs and sad songs. It comes from my heart and that's really all I feel. Music has saved me in many ways. She feeds my soul.
Taylor Momsen


The world is music to which you need to find the words!
Boris Pasternak


Love and study the great art of music: it will open to you a whole world of high feelings, passions, thoughts. It will make you spiritually richer, purer, more perfect. Thanks to music, you will find new, previously unknown strengths in yourself. You will see life in new tones and colors.
Dmitry Shostakovich


Our music, the soul of our soul, those singing channels through which our pain leaves the heart.
Federico Garcia Lorca


Just as all arts gravitate toward music, so all sciences gravitate towards mathematics.
George Santayana


Any art strives to become music.
Walter Pater


The Italians are such a musical people, they cannot live a single minute without music! Instead of saying “twenty sous” like we do, they say “one lira” every time...
Alphonse Alle


Without music life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche


Music needs words as little as sculpture.
Anton Grigorievich Rubinshtein


I know: there are almost no rules for modern music. They start unnecessarily with whatever comes to hand. Rush to modulate to appear cocky. A few chords that are considered ultra-modern - here the scale, the so-called Chinese - there. It is similar to the manufacture of a lady's hat, although less skillfully. Finish as needed. Was it worth it to start?
Maurice Ravel


Music is all around us, we just need to be able to hear it...
August Rush


The purpose of music is silence.
Kazimir Malevich


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