"The arts are not a luxury."
"It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer."
"Playing music is supposed to be fun. It's about feelings, moving people, and something beautiful, and it's not about notes on a page. I can teach you notes on a page, I can't teach you that other stuff." -Mr. Holland's Opus
"Too many of our fellow citizens have been killed and no one knows where they are buried. Who can erect a monument to their memory? Music alone can do it." -Shostakovich
"All birds and men must die, but music may live forever."
"Behind every musician lurks a man fully as interesting as the art he pursues." -Deems Taylor
"Art is the expression of a dream, and dreams are what we are at heart."
"Music...
Speaks what cannot be expressed
Soothes the mind and gives it rest
Heals the heart and makes it whole
Flows from heaven to the soul."
"We don't stop playing music because we grow old... We grow old because we stop playing music."
"The notes I handle no better then many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides." -Artur Schnabel
"We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of dreams."
"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." -Aldous Huxley
"From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless." -Hazrat Inayat Khan
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." -Albert Einstein
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery." -Francis Bacon
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels." -Thomas Carlyle
"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness." -George Jean Nathan
"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light." -Claude Debussy
"Music is the universal language of mankind." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"There is sweet music here that softer falls
Than petals from blown roses on the grass,
Or night-dew on the still waters between walls
Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass;
Music that gentler on the spirit lies
Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes."
- Lord Tennyson
"Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason." -Albert Camus
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art." -Leonardo Da Vinci
"All day and night, music,
a quiet, bright reedsong,
if it fades, we fade."
-Rumi
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection." -Michelangelo
"Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice." -Samuel Johnson
"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence." --Stokowski
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." --Victor Hugo
"The earth has music for those who listen." --William Shakespeare
"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun." --Picasso
"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music." --George Eliot
"Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence of it in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. It would not leave them narrow-minded and bigoted." --Thoreau
"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end." --Igor Stravinsky
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." --Berthold Auerbach
"In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things." --Luciano Pavarotti
"No friend like music when the last word's spoken and every pleading is a plea in vain; no friend like music when the heart is broken, to mend its wings and give it flight again." --Daniel Whitehead Hicky
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." --Pablo Picasso
"I think that's why music is very very powerful. It helps people through the difficult times." --Celine Dion
"There is one art of which one should be master-the art of reflection."
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." -Emile Zola
"I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time." -Erin Cleary
"Without music life would be a mistake" -Friedrich Nietzsche
"In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically." -Vincent van Gogh
"The music in my heart I bore long after it was heard no more." -William Wordsworth
"A painting is never finished—it simply stops in interesting places." -Paul Gardner
"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things." -Edgar Degas
"Football fields were made for marching bands."
"Support the arts; kiss a musician."
"The football team will be playing before and after the feature performance of the band."
"What's the football team doing on our marching field?!"
"If you didn't come to hear the band what did you come for?"
"Real men read music."
"You don't need any brains to listen to music." --Pavarotti
"Learning music by reading is like making love by mail." --Pavarotti
"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself." -Johann Sebastian Bach
"In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages." -Sir Thomas Beecham -- on Bruckner's 7th symphony
"A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it." -Sir Thomas Beecham
"These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig." -Alfred Hitchcock
"Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour." -Gioacchino Rossini
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds" -Mark Twain
"Disco is to music what Etch-A-Sketch is to art."
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."-- Scott Adams
"When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."-- Pablo Picasso
"The difference between amateurs and professionals is that amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until they can't get it wrong."
"There are many roads to stardom, but once your there, make sure you know the way back."
"Listen to the music inside you."
"Listen to your heart, it's where the music is."
"Music is one of the best cures."
"Music lets us pray without words."
"Never Bb, Sometimes B#, Always B(natural)."
"Acting: (akt'-ing) n. The act of performing or assuming a role while avoiding falling scenery, laryngitis, and all people who compare you to anyone else in that role." -Music Stand
"Musician: (myu'-zish-an) n. One who studies and performs musical tones combining rhythm, melody, and harmony while starving, scrimping, moaning, complaining, and generally having fun." -Music Stand
"Audition: (o-dish'-en) n. The act of putting yourself under extrema stress while satisfying the sadistic intentions of others." -Music Stand
"Stage Fright: (staj frit) n. The unreasonable fear of performing for an audience that is only waiting to laugh at, jeer, and mutilate you for anything less then a perfect performance" -Music Stand
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. " - Emile Zola
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it. " - Pablo Picasso
"Let music be forever be important to you because your life will always need a great soundtrack." -INK
"The first true rhythm you heard was your own beating heart." -INK
"Be immersed, engulfed, impassioned, enthralled, individualized, in time, and instantly set on fire by the music inside of you." -INK
"Music defines the rhythms that you move to and the colors you paint your life in." -INK
"Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul- gentleness, anger, courage, temperament, and their opposites and other qualities." ~ Aristotle
"Think like a Musician,
Act like a Musician,
Practice like a Musician,
And you'll be a Musician."
"Musician's Prayer
God, please bless my music
That it might glorify Your name,
May using it to serve You
Always be my aim.
Let it be a witness
To Your majesty and love,
And remind us that You're watching
From Your throne above.
May others see Your beauty
In every note they hear,
And when they hear my music
May they feel Your presence near.
Oh Lord, I ask for guidance
In everything I do,
And pray You'll make my music
An insterment for you."
-R.K. Cecli
"The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune."
"Woodwinds kick brASS" -Cole Gilmour
"We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth." -Pablo Picasso
"When music fails to agree with the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had missed the point." -Maria Callas
"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts."
"Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence of it in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. It would not leave them narrow-minded and bigoted."
"A painter paints pictures on a canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence." -Leopole Stokowski
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." -Berthold Auerbach
"Love or music? Which power can uplift a man to the sublimest heights? It is a large question, yet it seems to me one should answer it in this way: Love cannot give you an idea of music, music can give you an idea of love. But why separate them? They are the two ways of the soul." -Hector Berlioz
"After silence {music is} which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible." -Aldous Huxley
"{Music is} The art which is most nigh to tears and memory." -Oscar Wilde
"Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you." -Charlie Parker
"Music is Love in search of a word." -Sidney Lanier
"Music is the vernacular of the human soul." -Geoffrey Latham
"Life is like music; it can be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule." -Samuel Butler
"Music has charms to soothe a savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." -William Congreve
"Music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts." -Thomas Eliot
"Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory; odors when sweet violets sicken, live within the sense they quicken." -Percy Shelley
"If music be the food of love, play on." -William Shakespeare
"Music, moody food of us that trade in love." -William Shakespeare
"Music is the universal language of mankind -- poetry their universal pastime and delight." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"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. ...I get most you in life out of music." -Albert Einstein
"Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music." -Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
"Music can change the world." -Beethoven
"Music is to me the perfect expression of the soul."
"Music is the most romantic of all the arts - one might almost say, the only genuinely romantic one - for its sole subject is the infinite. Music discloses to man an unknown realm, a world in which he leaves behind all definite feelings to surrender himself to an inexpressible longing." -E.T.A. Hoffman
"Provided that one can feel the music, one can make the pianoforte sing." -Beethoven
"Music... the favourite passion of my soul." -Thomas Jefferson
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite." -Thomas Carlyle
"The hardest thing in the world is to start an orchestra, and the next hardest, to stop it."
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
"The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead."
"Hell is full of musical amateurs." --George Bernard Shaw
"Melody is the golden thread running through the maze of tones by which the ear is guided and the heart reached."
"People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the piano happens to be open; because they want to become millonaires; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever."
"Time is to the musician what space is to the painter."
"There are two types of music; German music and bad music." --H.L. Mencken
"Psychologists have found that music does things whether you like it or not. Fast tempos invariably raise your pulse, respiration and blood pressure; slow music lowers them."
"Music hath charms to sooth the savage breast, soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." --William Congreve(?)
"Good musicians execute their music but bad ones murder it."
"Some musicians take pains with music, others give them."
"It is not necessary to understand music; it is only necessary to enjoy it."
"Of all the arts, music is practiced most."
"Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie." --John Milton
"Music is a kind of counting performed by the mind without knowing that it is counting."
"There should be music in every house--except the one next door."
"The more you love music, the more music you love."
"If one is a true musician he will not play the music, but let the music play him."
"My world revolves around music."
"Marching band... Always a step ahead!"
"Melody is Magnificent- Harmony is Heavenly."
"And on the 8th day, BAND was created..."
"To be is to do. -Socrates To do is to be. -Sartre Do be do be do. -Sinatra"
"Humans make Music- Music makes Miricles."
"A musician is a juggler who uses harmonies insted of oranges."
"Band: A Trumpet Roarin', Baritone Burstin', Clarinet Blowin', Flute Tootin', Snare Drum Smashin', Tuba Thumpin', Trombone Slidin', Saxaphone Screamin', French Horn Blastin', Cymbal Crackin', Ear Drum Splittin', Musical EXPLOSION!"
"Music is magic, you cannot see it, or measure it, or apply logic to it, yet it is there." -Firebird
