Quotes from Classical Music

Without music, life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Music is the universal language of mankind. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words. – Victor Hugo

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable. – Ludwig van Beethoven

I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine. – Gustav Mahler

The only love affair I have ever had was with music. – Maurice Ravel

In music, the passions enjoy themselves. – Friedrich Nietzsche

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. – Albert Einstein

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

Music is the closest thing we have to magic. – Taylor Swift

The only truth is music. – Jack Kerouac

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. – Ludwig van Beethoven

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. – Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the poetry of the air. – Jean Paul Richter

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don’t understand the language that you’re singing in, they still know good music when they hear it. – Lou Rawls

Quotes from Classical Music part 2

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. – Oscar Wilde

Music is the strongest form of magic. – Marilyn Manson

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. – Emile M. Cioran

Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond. – Ray Charles

Music is the friendliest of all the arts. It is the simplest one. – Paul Hindemith

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

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness. – Edgar Allan Poe

Music is the universal language of mankind. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music is the most direct language of the soul. – Max Heindel

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones. – Keith Richards

Music is the shorthand of emotion. – Leo Tolstoy

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. – Pablo Casals

Music is the universal language of mankind. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. – Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. – John Erskine

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. – Robert Fripp

Music is the strongest form of magic. – Marilyn Manson

Music is an outburst of the soul. – Frederick Delius

The only thing better than singing is more singing. – Ella Fitzgerald

Music is the universal language of mankind. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life. – Jean Paul Richter

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. – Maya Angelou

Music is my higher power. – Oliver James

Music is the art of thinking with sounds. – Jules Combarieu

Music is an outburst of the soul. – Frederick Delius

Music is the doctor that can calm the soul. – Keiko Matsui

Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life. – Jean Paul Richter