Music Quotations

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.


Albert Schweitzer:

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.


Henry David Thoreau:

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.


John Adams:

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, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.


Louis-Ferdinand Céline:

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!


Percy Bysshe Shelley:

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.


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Please feel free to borrow a few quotations as you need them (that's what I did!). But please respect the creative work of compiling these quotations, and do not take larger sections.

: I'm always happy to read comments, corrections and suggested additions to this site, but I regret that I usually don't have time to acknowledge such emails. Please don't send me a favorite quote that you made up yourself -- I don't use those. If you don't agree with the selections or categorization, please remember: these are my personal favorites, and I don't pretend to be inclusive of all political, religious or philosophical perspectives.

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