Famous Quotes About music

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

Music is the soul of language.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.