Classic Music Quotes

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  • You are the music while the music lasts.

    Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 5 (1941)
  • Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

    Music   Wisdom   Heaven  
    'A Song for St Cecilia's Day'
  • Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy when he was 16 and spent most of his life in Vienna. He's the key composer between classic music and romantic music. Beethoven was the beginning of romantic music, and he was the teacher of Beethoven and Schubert.

  • Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the hero that had been the composer, the hero now was the performer, and especially the conductor.

    War   Hero   Firsts  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.

    Music   Ocean   Blessed  
  • Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

    Letter to Ferdinand Ries, 20 Dec. 1822
  • Where words fail, music speaks.

    Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”
  • If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

    Music   Art   Reality  
    Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)
  • A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

    Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.
  • Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

    "Bird: the legend of Charlie Parker". Book by Robert George Reisner, p. 27, 1977.
  • Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

    'Private Lives' (1930) act 1
  • Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

    Funny   Music   Dance  
  • I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

    Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.rollingstone.com. November 06, 1986.
  • To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

    Music   Mean   Play  
  • A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.

    Charles Rosen (2002). “Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist”, p.236, Simon and Schuster
  • You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a shortstop at work, how he concentrates on one thing at a time. You learn from classic music, from the blues and jazz, from bluegrass. From all this, you learn how to sustain a great line without bringing in unnecessary words.

    Moving   Athlete   Crafts  
  • I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.

    Source: bigthink.com
  • No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

    Music   Healing   Matter  
    Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.rollingstone.com. November 06, 1986.
  • Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

    "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.
  • Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  • A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

    Music   Found   Composer  
  • They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

    Music   Sound   Opera  
  • Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

    Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.13, Courier Corporation
  • I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

    Music   Witty   Humorous  
    Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984)
  • Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

    Music   Artist   Europe  
  • They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

    Music   Art   Men  
    Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)
  • If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

    Letter to Max Marschalk, March 26, 1896.
  • Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

    Thomas Carlyle (1888). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished (first Time, 1839; Final, 1869)”
  • I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

    FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Aug 19, 2013
  • Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

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