Here are some quotes on music by famous musicians. Enjoy!

1. Johann Sebastian Bach - "There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself."

2. Ludwig van Beethoven - "To play without passion is inexcusable!"

3. Johannes Brahms - "Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind."

4. Frederic Chopin - "Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art."

5. George Frideric Handel - "Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows."

6. Franz Joseph Haydn - "Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts."

7. Felix Mendelssohn - "Even if, in one or other of them, I had a particular word or words in mind, I would not tell anyone, because the same word means different things to different people. Only the songs say the same thing, arouse the same feeling, in everyone - a feeling that can't be expressed in words."

8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."

9. Franz Schubert - "Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same."

10. Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky - "I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous."


11. Music is the silence between the notes.
-Claude Debussy


12. What's best in music is not
to be found in the notes.
-Gustav Mahler

13. When I open my eyes, I can only sigh,
for what I see is contrary to my creed:
and I must despise the world for not perceiving that music is a higher revelation than any wisdom or philosophy.
It is the wine that inspires new creations.
-Ludwig van Beethoven


14. Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
-Victor Hugo

15. Music is the arithmetic of sounds
as optics is the geometry of light.
-Claude Debussy


16. Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm
imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody
imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and
harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
-Yehudi Menuhin


17. True music must repeat the thought
and inspirations of the people and the time.
My people are Americans and my time is today.
-George Gershwin

18. Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
- Beethoven

19. Chamber music - a conversation between friends.
- Catherine Drinker Bowen

~My Melancholy~