Quotations about Music

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24 Quotes Found

"Don't look at the trombones. It only encourages them."
	-Richard Strauss, Composer
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."
	- "Moulin Rouge"
"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition."
	-Dixie Chicks, in "Sin Wagon"
"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. . . . I get most joy in life out of music."
	-Albert Einstein, Nobel laureate and international physicist
"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it."
	-John Cage, Composer
"The only winner in the war of 1812 was Tchaikovsky."
	-Solomon Short
"The owls are not what they seem."
	-The Giant
"Carry on, my wayward son; There'll be peace when you are done. Lay your weary head to rest; Don't you cry no more."
	-Kansas, in "Carry On, My Wayward Son"
"When the players tried to take the field, The marching band refused to yield. Do you recall what was revealed The day the music died?"
	-Don McLean, in "American Pie"
"Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers. Remember when you're talkin' to the Man upstairs, That just because He may not answer doesn't mean He don't care. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers."
	-Garth Brooks, in "Unanswered Prayers"
"And I will sail my vessel till the river runs dry, Like a bird on the wind; these waters are my sky. I'll never reach my destination if I never try, So I will sail my vessel till the river runs dry."
	-Garth Brooks, in "The River"
"New Mexico rain, when it's hot down in Texas; New Mexico rain, and I call this my home. If I ain't happy here, then I ain't happy nowhere. New Mexico rain, when my mind starts to roam."
	-Michael Hearne, in "New Mexico Rain"
"And the river, she flows on round the bend, On down to Denver, where she meets a friend. And they sail together till they reach the sea. Wish I was the river, Lord, and the river was me."
	-Gerry Spehar, in "Georgetown"
"I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain? I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain, coming down the flooded plain?"
	-Creedence Clearwater Revival, in "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?"
"Long as I remember, the rain's been coming down. Clouds of mystery fallin', confusion on the ground. Goodness through the ages, tryin' to find the sun, and I wonder, still I wonder, who will stop the rain?"
	-Creedence Clearwater Revival, in "Who Will Stop the Rain?"
"Big wheels, keep on turnin'; carry me home to my kin. Singin' songs about the southland; I miss my family once again, yes, and I think it's a sin. Sweet home, Alabama, where the skies are so blue. Sweet home, Alabama, Lord, I'm comin' home to you."
	-Lynard Skynard, in "Sweet Home Alabama"
"The Mississippi delta was shining like a National guitar. I am following the river, down the highway, through the cradle of the Civil War. I am going to Graceland, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee; I'm going to Graceland. Poor boys, and pilgrims with families, and we are going to Graceland."
	-Paul Simon, in "Graceland"
"Music above all, and for this choose the irregular."
	-Paul Verlaine
"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."
	-Igor Stravinsky, Composer
"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays."
	-Oscar Wilde
"Music is the vernacular of the human soul."
	-Geoffrey Latham
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music . . ."
	-John Adams, Second President of the United States
"Music must take rand as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare."
	-Herbert Spencer
"Music is the universal language of mankind - poetry their universal pastime and delight."
	-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet