When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. – Leonard Bernstein
There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind. – Louis Armstrong
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. – Charles Baudelaire
Music was important. Football was the easy part. – Zinedine Zidane
When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine – it kinda sucks the life out of music. – Dave Grohl
If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land. – Mencius
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more. – George Byron
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. – Pythagoras
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today? – Billy Joel
I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape. – Thom Yorke
I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music. – David Bowie
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung. – Phillips Brooks
I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious. – Alanis Morissette
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence. – Leopold Stokowski
I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs? – Dave Grohl
Music fathoms the sky. – Charles Baudelaire
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance… poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. – Ezra Pound
