Quotes about Music

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

I'm one for new things: I like new technology, I like new music, I'm not entrenched in some view of what culture should be. I like the fact that it's constantly changing and that language is changing, that behaviour changes.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

I've loved music. It was my first everything, but fashion and clothes is just the next step.

I had no clue the songs from my films almost three decades ago are still popular.

hearing C-flat against an F-minor humming the lullaby to the rhythm of you reading that silly novel you try to complete each night I rest in your rest while the day snuggles in and sings me to sleep 'After the Day

It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for.

But none speaks with a single voice. None with a voice free from the old vibrations. Always I hear corrupt murmurs; the chink of gold and metal. Mad music...

I can't imagine anything nicer than to sit out in the moonlight and listen to music—

Here is a hall where one pays money and goes in, where one hears music among somnolent people who have come here after lunch on a hot afternoon. We have eaten beef and pudding enough to live for a week without tasting food. Therefore we cluster like maggots on the back of some thing that will carry us on.

It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for. Reality dwelling in what one saw and felt, but did not talk about, one could accept a system in which things went round and round quite satisfactorily to other people, without often troubling to think about it, except as something superficially strange.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.