Favourite and Famous Music Quotes

"The gift of music is such a precious one because it enables you to touch others" - ~William Joseph~


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Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

"Truely there would be reason to go mad were it not for music" ~Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky~

Claude Debussy

"I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of color and rhythms." ~Claude Debussy~

Claude Debussy

"I love music passionately. And because I love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art." ~Claude Debussy~

Jerry Earl Johnston

"If you're a composer who needs a melody, talk to *Cecilia. She'll put a song in your heart." ~Jerry Earl Johnston~

*St. Cecilia

Leonard Bernstein

“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” ~Leonard Bernstein~

Leonard Bernstein

“Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” ~Leonard Bernstein~

Albert Einstein

“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~

Confucius

"Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without." ~Confucius~

Yo-Yo Ma

‎"Music gives people a voice that is uniquely theirs.This can happen through an instrument or in the way that music helps people identify both simple and complex emotions. At its best, music transports one into a different world. When one returns to the normal world one has a greater perspective on existence." ~Yo-Yo Ma, cellist~

Yo Yo Ma

"The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina." ~Yo Yo Ma~

Leopoldo Marechal

"The tango is the natural pulse of Buenos Aires." ~Leopoldo Marechal~

Leopoldo Marechal (Buenos Aires, June 11, 1900 — June 26, 1970) was one of the most important Argentine writers of the twentieth century.

Jorge Luis Borges

"Without the streets or dusks of Buenos Aires, a tango cannot be written." ~Jorge Luis Borges~

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986), best known as Jorge Luis Borges (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxorxe ˈlwis ˈβorxes]), was an Argentine writer, essayist, and poet born in Buenos Aires.

William Joseph

"I absolutely love playing in front of an audience, not only do I want to take people on a musical journey, but I want to connect with them and hear what they think, which is why I love meeting people after the shows. The fans are as much a part of this as everything else and I take that connection with them very seriously." ~William Joseph~

Houston Arts Week - a blog written by Holly Beretto

"Pianist William Joseph gave a performance fantastic
“Piano Fantasy,” “Christmas Medley” were climatic.
Over the keys, his fingers they flew
Coaxing sounds joyous, gentle, seasonal, true."....

~from the blog - Houston Arts Week~

Mozart

"Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." ~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart~

Virgil Thomson

"What makes possible the writing of good music, beyond that talent for handling sound that is required for being a musician at all, is emotional sincerity and intellectual honesty. Both can be cultivated of course, but no one can lift himself up by his bootstraps unless he has a good heart" ~Virgil Thomson~

Anonymous

"The finest instrument is the mind" ~Anonymous~

David Foster

‎"I love William’s musicality, his writing and the magic he weaves on the piano. He has a unique gift the whole world should hear." ~David Foster speaking of William Joseph~

Henry Giles

"A song will outlive all sermons in the memory" ~Henry Giles ~

Clara Schumann

"I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me." ~Clara Schumann~

Schumann

“People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the piano happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes...." ~Robert A Schumann~

Virgil Thomson

"I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.” ~Virgil Thomson~

Virgil Thomson

“Musicians own music because music owns them." ~Virgil Thomson~

Glenn Gould

"If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing" ~Glenn Gould~

Gustav Mahler

"The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause." ~Mahler~

Mozart

"To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop." ~Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart~

William Joseph

"It (Music)has great power, and it seems to create opportunities to be closer to people, to relate to people. It can create any kind of feeling from love and passion to sadness and poignancy. It all comes from within."
~William Joseph~

William Joseph

"The thing that inspires me the most is just the emotion I'm feeling at the time. My music is very affected by my surroundings and by my current state. If I'm feeling sad, I'll probably write like this really sad sounding song...If I am feeling romantic and all these other feelings, it will come out in my music. My music is a total portrayal of how I'm feeling at the time." ~William Joseph~

Sergei Rachmaninov

"I try to make my music speak simply and directly that which is in my heart at the time I am composing. If there is love there, or bitterness, or sadness, or religion, these moods become part of my music, and it becomes either beautiful or bitter or sad or religious. For composing music is as much a part of my living as breathing and eating." ~Sergei Rachmaninov~

Elvis Prestley

"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." ~Elvis Prestley~

Victor Hugo

"Music expresses that which cannot be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent." ~Victor Hugo~

Lawrence Durrell

"Music is only love looking for words." ~Lawrence Durrell~

Sibelius

"While other composers were concocting cocktails of various colours, I offer pure, cold water." ~Jean Sibelius~

Sibelius

"Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic" ~Jean Sibelius~

Ludwig van Beethoven

"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." ~Ludwig Van Beethoven~

Nithyananda

"When you create through art, Existence blesses you, because you have added beauty to it." ~Nithyananda~

G.K. Chesterton

"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist." ~G.K. Chesterton~

Bono, U2

"Music can change the world because it can change people."
~Bono, U2~

"Bach gave us God's Word.

"Bach gave us God's Word. Mozart gave us God's laughter. Beethoven gave us God's fire. God gave us Music that we might pray without words."
[quote from outside a German Opera house ]

William Joseph

"Beyond is like the soundtrack to a movie that hasn't been written yet." - William Joseph

Beyond

Nice! I wish I had thought of posting that. But I am glad you did:)

Yanni

"Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better." ~Yanni~

Mozart

"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings." ~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart~

Anonymous

"Music is what feelings sound like" ~Anonymous~

Another favorite quote

"The piano keys are black and white, but they sound like a million colours in your mind" - Kate Melua

~Ginny~

Sappho

"I never dreamt that with my own two hands I could touch the sky"

- Sappho (Ancient Greek Poet)

~Ginny~

Jean Paul Richter

"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life." ~Jean Paul Richter~

Rachmaninov

"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" ~Sergei Rachmaninov~

Yanni

"Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colours." ~Yanni~