Category: Music Quotes

The soul of a country is in its folk music. The country that has abandoned its folk music to Commerce deserves a Coca-Cola wake.  Dr. Maya V Patel Quoted in Music Lovers Quotations, edited by Helen Exley

I am inclined to think that a hunt for folk songs is better than a manhunt of the heroes who are so highly extolled. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Quoted in Music Lovers Quotations, edited by Helen Exley.   Beethoven is one…

I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools, a schoolmaster ought to have skills in music, or I would not regard him;…

Music is the shorthand of emotion.  Emotions which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed in music, and in that is its power and significance.  Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Quoted in Music Lovers Quotations, edited by…

We listen to great music and know that all our joys and sorrows are part of something beyond our comprehension — and so infinitely valuable. Jesse O’Neill Quoted in Music Lovers Quotations, edited by Helen Exley.  

To hear [Mozart’s] music is to feel one has accomplished some good deed. It is difficult to say precisely wherein this good influence lies, but undoubtedly it is beneficial; the longer I live and the better I know him, the…

Why speak of time travel? We have a tried and proven method with us. Music moves us across centuries and continents without ever leaving our chairs.  Today I have stood in the huge quietness of Solemnes,  circled the glittering ballrooms…

We know an age more vividly through its music than it’s historians. Rosanne Ambrose-Brown Quoted in Music Lovers Quotations, edited by Helen Exley.  Ambrose-Brown is the author of numerous popular children’s books, including I’ve Loved You Since Forever

What is music? This question occupied my mind for hours last night before I fell asleep. The very existence of music is wonderful, I might even say miraculous. Its domain is between thought and phenomena. Like a twilight mediator, it…

I know that twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Quoted in Music Lovers Quotations, edited by Helen Exley.   Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky…