Famous Quotes & Sayings

Khalil Gibran

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Norman Wisdom

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

Ornette Coleman

The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

Ornette Coleman

I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes me happy to know it exists.

Ornette Coleman

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

Ornette Coleman

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

Omar Khayyam

Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Oliver Sacks

About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.

Oliver Sacks

Music is part of being human.

Oliver Sacks

The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.

Olive Schreiner

I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.

Mason Cooley

The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud.

Mason Cooley

Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers.

Marvin Minsky

We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption.

Marvin Minsky

Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.

Martin Short

A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.

Michael Franti

Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home

Michael Chiklis

I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.

Michael Connelly

As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.

Michael Connelly

Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.

Mencius

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

Michel Legrand

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

Martina McBride

Even if the sun refused to shine Even if romance ran out of rhyme You would still have my heart until the end of time You're all I need, my love, my Valentine

Martina McBride

I've dreamed of this a thousand times before But in my dreams I couldn't love you more I will give you my heart Until the end of time... You're all I need, my love, my Valentine

Ted Turner

Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.

Ted Nugent

Music is the great connector.

Mandy Patinkin

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

Mandy Patinkin

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

Malcolm Mclaren

I think if it doesn't do what I say, if it doesn't do what I want, if it isn't politically subversive, if it isn't sexy, if it isn't stylish to make all that happen then it isn't truthfully worth listening to.