It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
—Henry David Thoreau
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.
—Vincent Van Gogh
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
—Charles Darwin
Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
—Søren Kierkegaard
It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak— that I think about it all day long— that I like experimenting— studying— reflecting.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music is my life and my life is music.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Melody is the essence of music.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
—Aldous Huxley
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
—Plato
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
—Plato
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
—Plato
I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
—Plato
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
—Plato
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.
—Henry David Thoreau
Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
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 Einstein
No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.
—Julius Caesar