Making Music

Where words leave off, music begins. - Heinrich Heine

Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast. - James Bramston

I like your opera. I think I will set it to music. - Ludwig van Beethoven

The earth has its music for those who will listen. - George Santayana

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. - Ronald Reagan

You can't touch music, but music can touch you. - Mordecai

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. - G K Chesterton

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes. - Gustav Mahler

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated. - John Barbirolli

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Interval In Music: The distance from one piano to the next - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. - Leonard Bernstein

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. - Thomas Beecham

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has. - Taylor Swift

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. - Kin Hubbard

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. - Louis Armstrong

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. - Sergei Rachmaninoff

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. - Frank Zappa

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music. - Steve Race

If the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts. - Nic Sheff

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you. - Charles Hart

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve

Music is the only thing I've ever known that doesn't have any rules at all. - Josh Homme

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. - Pat Conroy

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. - Anna Akhmatova

The only purpose for music should be the glory of God and the re-creation of the human spirit. - Johann Sebastian Bach

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. - E Y Harburg

It is simply my life, music. I live it, breathe it, talk with it. I am almost unconscious of it. - Arthur Rubinstein

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. - Oscar Wilde

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. - Charlie Parker

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down. - Dimebag Darrell

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all. - Steven Tyler

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. - Albert Einstein