More Music Quotations And Sayings

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“When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have”
– Edgar Watson Howe

“Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.”
– Edgar Winter

“My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.”
– Edward Elgar

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture – it’s really a stupid thing to want to do.”
– Elvis Costello

“I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.”
– Elvis Presley

“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
– Frank Zappa

“Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.”
– Frank Zappa

“There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.”
– Frank Zappa

“Without music life would be a mistake”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“In music the passions enjoy themselves”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.”
– Gary Cherone

“Music’s staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.”
– Gary Wright

“Music is the vernacular of the human soul.”
– Geoffrey Latham

“True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.”
– George Gershwin

“The real art of conducting consists in transitions.”
– Gustav Mahler

“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.”
– Gustav Mahler

“Where words fail, music speaks.”
– Hans Christian Andersen

“When words leave off, music begins.”
– Heinrich Heine

“Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.”
– Henri Rabaud

“Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.”
– Henry Giles

“Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.”
– Herb Alpert

“Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.”
– Herbie Hancock

“Composers shouldn’t think too much – it interferes with their plagiarism.”
– Howard Dietz

“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.”
– Hunter S. Thompson

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