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"We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to." »Hazrat Inayat Khan
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"Elvis Presley once said that I don't know anything about the music. It is because he is the music itself! The nightingales don't know anything about the music!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony." »Sir Thomas Browne
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"There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal" »The National, Paris, 1850
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"The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle." »Heinrich Heine
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"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music." »George Eliot
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"Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music." »Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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"Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music." »Friedrich von Schelling
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"music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music." »Marcel Marceau
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"No statue has ever been put up to a critic." »Jean Sibelius
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"I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."" »Richard Pryor, Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004
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"A critic is a legless man who teaches running." »Channing Pollock
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"Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good." »P. G. Wodehouse
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"A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned." »George Bernard Shaw
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"There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him." »Author Unknown
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"It is better to be making the news than taking it to be an actor rather than a critic." »Winston Churchill
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"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." »Jean Sibelius
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"My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often--in fact, mostly--at the expense of everything else in my life." »Stan Getz
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"Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic" »Jean Sibelius
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"Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!" »Jean Sibelius, quoted in Bengt de Torne "Sibelius: A Close-Up" 1937
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"Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five." »James McNeill Whistler
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"Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic." »Ambrose Bierce
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"A critic is a bunch of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste." »Whitney Balliett
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"Frank I'd known her for years. We used to go to all the police functions together. Ah, how I loved her, but she had her music. I think she had her music. She'd hang out with the Chicago Male Chorus and Symphony. I don't recall her playing an instrument or be able to carry a tune. Yet she was on the road 300 days of the year. In fact I bought her a harp for christmas. She asked me what it was." »Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad
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"A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by." »Christopher Morley
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"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic." »Uta Hagan
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"Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life." »Henry Van Dyke
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"May not music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the music of reason?" »James Joseph Sylvester
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"Dateline Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That's when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out the the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum." »Jeffrey Vlaming
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