| "Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate." »Sun-tzu |
| "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 |
| "Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music." »Friedrich von Schelling |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish." »Virgil Thompson |
| "I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." »Elvis Presley |
| "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music." »Julius Henry Marx |
| "music is the shorthand of emotion." »Leo Tolstoy |
| "music is the soul of language." »Max Heindel |
| "The earth has music for those who listen." »William Shakespeare |
| "You don't need any brains to listen to music." »Luciano Pavarotti |
| "music is well said to be the speech of angels." »Thomas Carlyle |
| "Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable." »Samuel Johnson |
| "Without music life would be a mistake." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| "Philosophy is the highest music." »Plato |
| "In music the passions enjoy themselves." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| "Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here" »J. K. Rowling |
| "Wagner's music is better than it sounds." »Mark Twain |
| "I hate music, especially when it's played." »Jimmy Durante |
| "I write music with an exclamation point" »Richard Wagner |
| "music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some..." »Jacqui Webb |
| "music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent." »Victor Hugo |
| "I call architecture frozen music." »Johann von Goethe |
| "My music is best understood by children and animals." »Igor Stravinsky |
| "music is the vernacular of the human soul." »Geoffrey Latham |
| "music is Love in search of a word." »Sidney Lanier |
| "music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing." »John Erskine |
| "music is essentially useless, as life is." »George Santayana |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
