If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.
he is most noted for his instrumental music, especially his oboe concerti
I have always kept one end in view, namely… to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honor of God.
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
It is the special province of music to move the heart.
Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Music and love are the wings of the soul.
Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.
Balkan brass is punk – more madness than music. We all need some madness.
We do not go to concerts just to listen to music. It is the human need to be together. It is our basic need.
Music can not change the world, but it can unite us for a while.
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”
Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.
Simply it’s a universal language that everyone can understand and communicate easily. Music bridges cultures and countries from different parts of the globe
For me music is powerful. It brings peace in people’s hearts & minds as it overcome barriers and form strong bonds.
Good music is very close to primitive language.
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.
When words leave off, music begins.
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking!
The only truth is music.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends
The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”
The satisfaction which they find in their work has given them a grace and ease like that which comes from music.
Music inflames temperament.
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Every time I hear a recording I've made, I hear all kinds of things I could improve or things I should have done. There's always so much more to be done in music. It's so vast.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.
For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.
The worth of music, it includes all things Of untold value, like a priceless gem
To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.
Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
Everything is music for the born musician.
I do what I can to give everyone a moment of happiness. This is at the heart of my music.
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.
have learned from those who know how to preserve the tradition of music. I play music the way it used to be played.
If music be the food of love, play on.
The music I have learned and want to offer is like worship to God. It is absolutely like a prayer.
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
I am an inventor of music.
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
I haven't understood a single piece of music in my life, but I have felt it.
I have reached a very mature age without resting upon anything positive, without having calmed my restless spirit either by religion or philosophy. Undoubtedly I should have gone mad but for music.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. ”
In memory, everything seems to happen to music.
Music needs 3 things: Art, technique and experiences. Without them it is not possible to write music.
"The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry."
"Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one..."