Music Quotes

“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.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Music is what feelings sound like.” – Anonymous

“Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.” – Johann Sebastian Bach

“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.” – Angela Monet

“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.” – Anonymous

“I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed . . . equally well.” – Johann Sebastian Bach

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music” – Sergei Rachmaninov

“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” – Aaron Copland

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent” – Victor Hugo

“Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.” – Johann Sebastian Bach

“Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul” – Plato

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

“Music is love in search of a word.” – Sidonie Gabrielle

“Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.” – E. Y. Harburg

“Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Music fills the infinite between two souls” – Rabindranath Tagore

“Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.” – Walter Savage Landor

“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.” – Johann Sebastian Bach

“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.” – Henry David Thoreau

“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

“When the music changes, so does the dance” – African Proverb

“Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.” – Giuseppe Mazzini

“Without music, life would be an error.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Music is an outburst of the soul.” – Frederick Delius

“Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.” – Marcel Marceau

“If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.” – Johann Sebastian Bach

“I have always kept one end in view, namely, with all good will to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honor of God” – Johann Sebastian Bach

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