Michele Jennings

Music Quotes

"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable." Leonard Bernstein

"Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often." Samuel Butler

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Berthold Auerbach

"Music is a higher revelation than philosophy."
Ludwig van Beethoven

"The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music." -- Agnes de Mile

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent." Victor Hugo

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Leonard Huxley

"Music is the vernacular of the human soul."
Geoffrey Latham

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be."
Abraham Maslow

"Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world."
Giuseppe Mazzini

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"You are the music while the music lasts."
T.S. Eliot

"Music is what feelings sound like."
Author Unknown

"Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words."
Robert G. Ingersoll

"Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art."
Joseph Addison

"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance."
Dave Barry

"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

"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

"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings."
Ed Gardner

"Chaos is a friend of mine."
Bob Dylan

"When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress."
William Shakespeare

"Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."
Ludwig van Beethoven