Quotes about Music
Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.
- John Lennon
Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.
- Gracie Gold
Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.
- Alice Walker
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.
- Seth Godin
Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
All dancing is now is standing in place and letting the devil of the music enter you.
- John Updike
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
- George Bernard Shaw
Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.
- George Eliot
Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.
- Thomas Jefferson
Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
- Joseph Addison