“Art is long, life is short.”
Hippocrates
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Music Quotes
Read 200 of the best music quotes from Plato, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Bach, Rabindranath Tagore and Thyagaraja to modern musicians, on the power of music to heal, inspire and bring people together.
“Music is the vapour of art.”
Victor Hugo
ArtShort Quotes
“Music is the most romantic of all the arts.”
E. T. A. Hoffmann
RomanceArt
“Anything too stupid to be said is sung.”
Voltaire
FunnyWit
“Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.”
Attributed to Samuel Johnson
FunnyWit
“Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
MemoryPoetry
“Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
RestPoetry
“Music! Oh, how faint, how weak, language fades before thy spell!”
Thomas Moore
LanguagePower
“Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.”
Attributed to Albert Einstein
MozartUniverse
“The heavenly motions are nothing but a continuous song for several voices.”
Johannes Kepler
AstronomyHarmony
“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.”
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
MathematicsMind
“The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.”
Rabindranath Tagore (Gitanjali)
LifeRhythm
“Singing is for the one who loves.”
Saint Augustine
LoveSinging
“Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.”
The Bible (Psalm 100:2)
GladnessPraise
“Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant.”
The Bible (Psalm 147:1)
PraiseJoy
“I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live.”
The Bible (Psalm 104:33)
DevotionLifelong Music
“Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord.”
The Bible (Psalm 150:6)
PraiseFaith