Aphorisms, statements, quotations about music. Quotes from Great Musicians

Know the rhythm that is hidden in human life.
Archilochus

Music inspires the whole world, furnishes the soul with wings, promotes the flight of the imagination; music gives life and fun to everything that exists ... It can be called the embodiment of everything beautiful and everything sublime.
Plato

When we perceive rhythm and melody with our ears, our spiritual mood changes.
Aristotle

Music is capable of exerting a certain influence on the ethical side of the soul; and since music has such properties, then, obviously, it should be included in the number of subjects for the education of young people.
Aristotle

Opera - fullest form music as art.
Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky

Music is the universal language of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music encourages us to think eloquently.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music shows a person the possibilities of greatness that are in his soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The song is a social drum that opens the march and to the beat of which they keep pace.
Pierre Jean Beranger

Music doubles, triples the army. Music is the most poetic, the most powerful, the most alive of all the arts.
Hector Louis Berlioz

Of all the noises that are known to mankind, music is the most expensive noise.
Theophile Gauthier

Music is the pair of art. It is to the art of poetry what dreams are to thought, what to the ocean of waves is the ocean of clouds above it.
Victor Marie Hugo

In music, as it must be in all other arts, as soon as style, character, in a word, something serious, appears, everything else disappears.
Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix

The field of music is spiritual unrest. The purpose of music is to arouse these excitements, and she herself is also inspired by them.
George Sand

Nothing evokes the past with such force as music; she achieves more: when she invokes it, it seems as if it itself passes before us, shrouded, like the shadows of those who are dear to us, with a mysterious and sad veil.
Anna Louise Germaine

Notes are just the art of writing down ideas, the main thing is to have them.
Stendhal

No picture, no word can so express the most essential, most intimate content of the heart as music; her cordiality is incomparable, irreplaceable.
Kuno Fisher

I do not know of greater happiness for a composer than to write a simple song, which in five or ten years will become popular, and meanwhile the name of its creator will be forgotten.
Richard Strauss

Is there a person in the world, unless he is deaf in thought, who would not love songs?
Mukhtar Omarkhanovich Auezov

When I write my songs, the main thing for me is not to compose music, but to satisfy the innermost intentions of the poet.
Edvard Grieg

Words sometimes need music, but music needs nothing.
Edvard Grieg

Music is not only an ennobling and educational factor. Music is the healer of health.
Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev

Only greatest art Music can touch the depths of the soul.
Maksim Gorky

Word and action become highly significant when music takes them on its wings.

I don't know if there is a single great musician who can be said to be outdated. The simplest song coming from the depths of millennia is alive.
Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky

Music outside nationality does not exist, and in essence, any music that is considered to be universal is still national.
Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov

For me, the phrase "man and song" sounds like "man and air." If there is not enough air, the person suffocates.
Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov

Melody is the soul of everything... Without thought there is no poet, without melody there is no music.
Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov

Music, like any other human language, must be inseparable from the people, from the soil of this people, from its historical development.
Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov

nowhere folk song has not played and does not play such a role as in our people, nowhere has it been preserved in such richness, strength and diversity as it is with us.
Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov

Modern troubadours do not use mandolins, but car horns.
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky

Music is the highest art in the world.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Music makes me forget myself, my true position, it takes me to some other position, not my own; under the influence of music it seems to me that I feel what I don’t really feel, that I understand what I don’t understand, that I can do what I can’t ... She, music, immediately immediately transfers me directly to that state of mind in which was the one who wrote the music. I merge with him in soul and together with him I am transferred from one state to another.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Music is shorthand for feelings.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

The exile of the melody is the rejection of the truthful expression of great feelings, the rejection of content, of realism.
Tikhon Nikolaevich Khrennikov

Great composers have always and above all paid attention to the melody as leading start in music. Melody is music, the main foundation of all music, since the perfect melody implies and brings to life its harmonic arrangement.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Love and study the great art of music. It will open to you a whole world of high feelings, passions, thoughts. It will make you spiritually richer. Thanks to music, you will find new powers unknown to you before. You will see life in new tones and colors.

Lovers and connoisseurs of music are not born, but become… To fall in love with music, one must first of all listen to it.
Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich

Melody is a thought, it is a movement, it is the soul of a piece of music.
Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich

Real music is always revolutionary, it unites people, disturbs them, calls them forward.
Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich

Real music is capable of expressing only humane feelings, only progressive humane ideas.
Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich

Music, without mentioning anything, can say everything.
Ilya Grigorievich Ehrenburg

It is not necessary to understand the music, but it is necessary that it be enjoyable.
Leopold Stokowski

Music is a powerful source of thought. Without musical education full mental development is impossible.

Music unites the moral, emotional and aesthetic spheres of a person. Music is the language of feelings.
Vasily Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinsky

Great music, I am convinced of this, always comes from the heart. Music created only by the application of technology is not worth the paper on which it is written.
Maurice Joseph Ravel

In music you are always punished when you lie and write out of vanity. Music can only be modest and sincere.
Romain Rolland

Music for me is the same poetry, and of all kinds of poetry, it is the most captivating.
Romain Rolland

Music is dear to us because it is the deepest expression of the soul, the harmonic echo of its joys and sorrows.
Romain Rolland

Music, like rain, drop by drop, seeps into the heart and enlivens it.
Romain Rolland

There were no eras completely unfamiliar with music.
Romain Rolland

One note does not make a melody, differences are needed. Even disagreements are needed... The beauty of a melody is born from a combination of dissimilarity.
Jean Henri Fabre

Melody is a kind of tautology, it is closed in itself, it is content with itself.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Melody is not a mixture of sounds, as all those who are not musically gifted believe.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

The unshakable position of the modern piano is based on its universal application for the home assimilation of almost all the treasures of musical literature.
Max Weber

Nothing can so excite in us, the bearers of late culture, a sense of sacred play as a musical experience.
Johan Huizinga

There is no horde in any desert that does not have songs.
Gustav Gustavovich Shpet

Just as gymnastics contributes to a certain extent to the development of physical qualities, so music is able to influence the ethical nature.
Aristotle

Of all the sciences and arts, music is the oldest.
Quintilian

Music is a source of joy wise people, it is capable of calling among the people good thoughts, it penetrates deeply into his mind and easily changes mores and customs.
Xun Tzu

Music is a science that talks about the numbers found in sounds.
Alcuin Flakk Albin

Music is the best solace for a sad person.
Martin Luther

One of the most beautiful and best gifts of God is music, which serves to drive away temptation and evil thoughts.
Martin Luther

He who does not enjoy music is created without harmony.
Josephfo Carlino

Music drowns out sadness.
William Shakespeare

Music is terrible when there is no tact or measure in it.
William Shakespeare

Music is the unconscious exercise of the soul in arithmetic.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

The purpose of music is to touch hearts.
Johann Sebastian Bach

Melody alone is the source of that invincible power possessed by inspired art.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

The music must play towards poetic work the same role that the brightness of colors plays in relation to the exact drawing.
Christoph Willibald Gluck

Music, even in the most terrible dramatic situations, must always captivate the ear, always remain music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The beauty of music is in the melody.
Joseph Haydn

Music with its melody brings us to the very edge of eternity and gives us the opportunity to comprehend its greatness within a few minutes.
Thomas Carlyle

Music washes away the dust from the soul Everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach

Music is the only world language, it does not need to be translated, soul speaks to soul in it.
Berthold Auerbach

Music should strike fire from people's hearts.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is a people's need.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the mediator between the life of the mind and the life of the senses.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is a higher revelation than wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Melody is the only form of music; without melody, music is unthinkable, and music and melody are inseparable.
Richard Wagner

Music cannot think, but it can embody thought.
Richard Wagner

Music is the true universal human speech.
Carl Julius Weber

What is music? It occupies a place between thought and appearance; as a pre-dawn mediator she stands between spirit and matter; related to both, it is different from them: it is a spirit in need of measured time; it is matter, but matter which dispenses with space.
Heinrich Heine

There is something magical about rhythm; he makes us believe that the sublime is ours.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

The greatness of art is most clearly manifested in music.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

I always work better after listening to music.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

The secret of music is that it finds an inexhaustible source where speech falls silent.
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

Of all the arts, music is the most human and widespread.
Jean Paul

Music is the poetry of the air.
Jean Paul

O music! Echo of a distant harmonious world! Sigh of an angel in our soul! When the word and the embrace and the tear-filled eye fade away, when our dumb hearts are alone
languish behind the bars of our chest - oh, then only thanks to you can they send each other a response from their prisons, unite their distant moans in one desert.
Jean Paul

Dominant principle ancient music- rhythm and melody, new - harmony.
August Wilhelm Schlegel

When I listen to music, it often seems to me that the life of all people and my own essence are the dreams of some eternal spirit, and that death is an awakening.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Always play as if the artist is listening to you.
Robert Schumann

Whoever does not play with the piano does not play on it either.
Robert Schumann

Music is like drama. The queen (melody) has more power, but the decision is always with the king.
Robert Schumann

The fingers should create on the piano what the head wants - and not vice versa.
Robert Schumann

Music has more to do with the moral actions of man than is commonly thought.
Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky

Don't believe that a person can understand music right away. This is impossible. You have to get used to it first.
Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky

Another singer sometimes wheezes.
Kozma Prutkov

Music is the language of the soul; it is the realm of feelings and moods; it is the life of the soul expressed in sounds.
Alexander Nikolaevich Serov

Music is intelligence embodied in beautiful sounds.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

In an artist, there is unconditional truth not in a banal, protocol sense, but in a higher sense that opens up some unknown horizons for us, some inaccessible spheres where only music can penetrate.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

There is dissonance greatest power music.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Beauty in music does not lie in a heap of effects and harmonic curiosities, but in simplicity and naturalness.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Music is a treasury into which every nationality contributes its own, for the common good.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The musical material, i.e. melody, harmony and rhythm, is certainly inexhaustible. Millions of years will pass, and if music in our sense still exists, then the same seven fundamental tones of our scale, in their melodic and harmonic combinations, animated by rhythm, will still serve as a source of new musical thoughts.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Music is the art of rhythmic manipulation with sounds that differ in pitch, duration, timbre and intervals between them, the connections of which are subject to a certain logic of thinking, guided by emotions.

“Musical education is not the education of a musician, but, above all, the education of a person”

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Quotes and Aphorisms 24.03.2018

Dear readers, there is no doubt that music plays a huge role in our lives. It inspires and soothes, entertains and gives solemnity. important points, helps to tune in the right way and express something that inspires or disturbs us. Therefore, with such enthusiasm, we not only listen to music, but also talk about it, share our impressions, favorite compositions, and advise what to listen to.

And although, as the famous American composer and singer Frank Zappa said, “talking about music is like dancing about architecture,” there are so many quotes about music. And that's what we're talking about today on the blog.

In general, and for each person individually, ancient philosophers and sages wrote. Let's see how accurate and deep their quotes about music are.

What did the greats say about music?

“Music inspires the whole world, supplies the soul with wings, promotes the flight of the imagination; music gives life and fun to everything that exists ... It can be called the embodiment of everything beautiful and everything sublime.

“It is difficult to find a better method of education than that which has already been found by the experience of so many centuries; it can be briefly defined as consisting of gymnastics for the body and music for the soul.”

"For this reason musical education extremely important, because it allows rhythm and harmony to penetrate into the soul as deeply as possible, filling it with beauty and endowing a person with a sense of beauty.
Plato

A student of Plato, Aristotle, who raised Alexander the Great and was no less famous than his teacher, fully shared his opinion about the enormous influence of music on a person.

“Music is capable of exerting a certain influence on the ethical side of the soul; and since music has such properties, it should be included in the number of subjects for the education of young people.

"Music ennobles morals."

Aristotle

These quotes about music with meaning are not just big words. They reflect a reverent attitude to music as a science, as an indisputable and integral part of a person's upbringing and education. And music in ancient times was indeed not only an art - it was one of the most important scientific disciplines along with mathematics, philosophy, medicine.

What is music anyway? Can words describe that great role that it plays in our lives and measure the impact it has on us? Quotes about the music of great people will help us get closer to this understanding.

“Music is a source of joy for wise people, it is able to evoke good thoughts in the people, it penetrates deeply into their consciousness and easily changes mores and customs.”

"Music is the fragrant flower of the benefactor."

Xun Tzu

"Where words end, music begins."

Heinrich Heine

"Music is the universal language of mankind."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Music is not only an ennobling, educational factor. Music is the healer of health.

Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev

"Music is the highest art in the world."

“Music makes me forget myself, my true position, it takes me to some other, not my position; Under the influence of music, it seems to me that I feel what I don’t really feel, that I understand what I don’t understand, that I can do what I can’t ... It, music, immediately immediately transfers me directly to that state of mind, in which was the one who wrote the music. I merge with him in soul and together with him I am transferred from one state to another.

"Music is shorthand for feelings."

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

“No picture, no word can so express the most essential, most intimate content of the heart as music; her cordiality is incomparable, irreplaceable.”

Kuno Fisher

“There are moments when you fully feel the lack of earthly language, you would like to express yourself in some kind of harmony, music. Music is the immaterial daughter of material sounds, it alone can transfer the trembling of one soul to another, pour sweet, unaccountable languor ... "

Alexander Ivanovich Herzen

“The greatness of art, perhaps, is most clearly manifested in music, for it has no content to be reckoned with. She is all forms and fillings. It makes sublime and noble everything that it undertakes to express.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Music is an acoustic composition that makes us hungry for life, just as well-known drugstore compounds make us hungry for food.”

Vasily Klyuchevsky

Music and soul

Quotes about music and the soul reflect the idea of ​​​​the close connection between music and the state of harmony that it causes in us. It is impossible not to succumb to her influence, not to follow her. Music is the tuning fork of our soul, the most obvious indicator of our state of mind. It purifies and awakens our heart, opens it to goodness and light.

“I don’t listen to music, I listen to my soul.”

Marina Tsvetaeva

“Music shows a person the possibilities of greatness that are in his soul.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“God gave us music, so that we, first of all, were drawn upwards by it ...”

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Music is the only world language, it does not need to be translated - the soul speaks to the soul in it."

“Music washes away the dust of everyday life from the soul.”

Berthold Averbakh

“Music, like rain, seeps into the heart drop by drop and enlivens it.”

Romain Rolland

“There is something magical about rhythm: it makes us believe that the sublime belongs to us.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Just as gymnastics straightens the body, so music straightens the human soul.”

Vasily Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinsky

"Only the greatest art - music - can touch the depths of the soul."

Maksim Gorky

Nice about music

You can talk and write about music endlessly and never repeat yourself. Music is air. This is the whole universe. This is something under the influence of which we change, even if we do not realize it. Just listen to what beautiful words are said about her, what are beautiful quotes about music!

“Music is the pair of art. It is the same for the art of poetry, what dreams are for thought, what for the ocean of waves is the ocean of clouds above it.

Victor Marie Hugo

“Music is inferior to love alone, but love is also a melody.”

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

"Music is the poetry of the air."

Jean Paul

"Music with its melody brings us to the very edge of eternity and gives us the opportunity for a few minutes to comprehend its greatness."

Thomas Carlyle

"Bach almost makes me believe in God..."

Roger Fry

“When music cries, all mankind cries with it, all nature cries.”

Henri Bergson

"Music, without mentioning anything, can say everything."

Ilya Erenburg

famous musicians about music

Our whole world is like a huge picture of a mosaic, consisting of sounds, colors, light. It is not surprising that with the help of music we get to know the world and open our soul to other people. Opening our musical preferences, we seem to share the most intimate.

And who can say better about music than those who have touched it directly, who are involved in its creation, who bring it into our world. After all, music is their whole life, and in support of this, quotes about the music of famous musicians.

"I live in this world only to write music."

Franz Schubert

“Where words are powerless, a more eloquent language, music, is fully armed.”

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

"Words sometimes need music, but music doesn't need anything."

Edvard Grieg

"The purpose of music is to touch hearts."

Johann Sebastian Bach

“Music embodies feeling, without forcing it to affirm and mix with thought, as it is forced in most arts, especially in the art of the word ...”

Franz Liszt

"Music is the mediator between the life of the mind and the life of the senses."

"Music is a mediator between spiritual and sensual life." “Music is one incorporeal entrance to the higher world of knowledge that humanity comprehends, but which man cannot comprehend.”

"Music should strike fire from people's hearts."

Ludwig van Beethoven

"Music needs words as little as sculpture."

Anton Rubinstein

“Love and study the great art of music. It will open to you a whole world of high feelings, passions, thoughts. It will make you spiritually richer. Thanks to music, you will find new, previously unknown strengths in yourself. You will see life in new colors and colors.”

Dmitry Shostakovich

"We don't listen to music, but music listens to us."

Theodor Adorno

Impossible to imagine contemporary music without such a huge cultural layer as rock music. The evolution of this musical direction took less than seventy years, originating from the blues rock and roll, and now it is already occupying a huge musical niche, giving rise to more and more new offshoots. Actually, this is the secret of the popularity of rock music - everyone can find a genre in it to their liking, she will find an approach to everyone and select the right key to her heart. Quotes about rock music and rock musicians are the best way to describe why it has been so popular for many decades in a row.

“Rock is rebellion anyway. Rock is in any case a protest against the system. But this is not necessarily the approval of some other system instead of the existing one. Even if you can’t offer any better alternative, then it’s wrong in my opinion to agree with what is.”

Gleb Samoilov

"Rock is the ability to bring freedom into the world, into the minds of people."

Taylor Momsen

“Rock is movement, it is history, it is truth and freedom, it is a force capable of moving mountains and uniting common efforts. In rock there is no place for hypocrisy, window dressing, parody, lies. Rock is not just music. Rock music is life."

Lusine Gevorgyan

“Our business is not to show technical tricks on the guitar, but to awaken emotions in people!”

David Gilmour

“Music belongs to everyone. Only the record labels still believe they are the owners."

“Rock and roll is eternal because it is simple, there is nothing superfluous in it. His rhythm penetrates all obstacles. I read a book by Eldridge Cleaver - he writes about how blacks helped with their music white man find yourself, realize your body. Their music has penetrated us forever. Already at the age of fifteen, for me, nothing but rock and roll in this life no longer existed.

Its strength is in some special realism. The striking naturalness of rock strikes at the very first acquaintance with it. In a word, this is true art.

“I don't know what will disappear first: religion or rock. I bet on the first.

John Lennon

“I am proud that the brand of rock and roll is on my soul!”

Paul McCartney

“I didn’t make a choice – the music chose me. And now I play rock."

Roger Glover, Deep Purple

"Rock is music through which you can understand your inner world and find a piece of yourself without killing anyone."

Jared Leto

Music in one way or another is present in the life of each of us. She comes to us even before birth with a gentle mother's voice, with lullabies right after we were born, she accompanies us all our lives. And even though our musical preferences may be radically different - it does not matter. The main thing is that this amazing miracle is present in our life - music. A miracle that awakens in our hearts the best that they have. A miracle without which all human existence is inconceivable.

Hope, dear readers that this article about quotes related to music was interesting and informative for you. Let music into your heart, because, as the great Russian composer Shostakovich said, “music lovers and connoisseurs are not born, but become.” And may the music of spring and love always sound in your soul!

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Music is called to give birth to a flame in the soul - L. Beethoven

Perfect music gives incredible sensations. It is thanks to her that you can feel separation, parting, love, betrayal. You can be with your loved one, even when he is far away - thanks to music. – Stendhal

Real music turns any event, action, feeling into something perfect, into something that you want to fall in love with. It is in it, as in no other art, that life force and inspiration. - I. Goethe

Music is a medicine that helps to overcome depression, the dark side of life, problems and failures. And then - gives the desire to live on. – V. Klyuchevsky

Music is the closest connection with the people. She can change his views, give a new worldview, make him love something new, set him on a different path. Penetrates into the very depths of consciousness. – Mozart

Music does not think, it only embodies other people's thoughts. – L. Beethoven

When something cannot be expressed in speech, in ordinary words, music comes to the rescue. – E. Hoffman

Read the continuation of beautiful quotes on the pages:

Of all earthly music, the closest thing to heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart. Henry Beecher

The notes I play are no better than those of many other pianists. Pauses between notes - that's where the art lies! Artur Schnabel

I don't know if the angels really only play Bach in the presence of God; but I am sure that in their home circle they play Mozart. Karl Barth

L. Beethoven - Music should strike fire from the human soul.

I liked your opera. Maybe I'll write music for it. Ludwig van Beethoven

My music is best understood by children and animals. Igor Stravinsky

Akhmatova AA – Of all the arts, music is the most humane and widespread.

Music is intelligence embodied in beautiful sounds. – I. Turgenev

Happy music makes even happier, unhappy - even more unhappy. – V. Krachkovsky

The song that a mother sings at the cradle accompanies a person all his life, to the grave. — Biger G.

Plato - Great composers have always and above all paid attention to the melody as the leading principle in music. Melody is music, the main foundation of all music, since perfect melody implies and brings to life its harmonious arrangement.

Jean Paul - What is music? It occupies a place between thought and appearance; like a pre-dawn mediator, she stands between spirit and matter; related to both, it is different from them; this is a spirit in need of measured time; it is matter, but matter which dispenses with space.

R. Bugner - Melody is the only form of music; without melody, music is unthinkable, and music and melody are inseparable.

Music is capable of exerting a certain influence on the ethical side of the soul; and since music has such properties, then, obviously, it should be included in the number of subjects for the education of young people.

R. Wagner - Music is a truly universal language.

Writing music is not so difficult, the hardest thing is to cross out extra notes. – I. Brahms

Aristotle - Music is a mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Life would be a mistake without music. Friedrich Nietzsche

Music is intelligence embodied in beautiful sounds. – Turgenev I.S.

Bach almost makes me believe in God. Roger Fry

Music has no fatherland; her homeland is the whole universe. – F. Chopin

Chekhov A.P. – Music is the best consolation for a sad person.

Of all the arts, music is the most human and widespread. – J.-P. Richter

Music needs words as little as sculpture. Anton Rubinstein

Music is the mediator between the life of the mind and the life of the senses. – L. Beethoven

Xunzi - Music encourages us to think eloquently.

Music is the unconscious exercise of the soul in arithmetic. — Leibniz G.

Shakespeare W. - The greatness of art is most clearly manifested in music.

The fingers should create on the piano what the head wants, and not vice versa. – R. Schumann

Music with its melody brings us to the very edge of eternity and gives us the opportunity to comprehend its greatness within a few minutes. – T. Carlyle

Heine G. – Music is shorthand for feelings.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. David Byrne

Music is the universal language of mankind. – G. Longfellow

God gave us music, so that we, first of all, were drawn upward by it ... - Nietzsche F.

Music, without mentioning anything, can say everything. – I. Ehrenburg

Chesterton G. - Music inspires the whole world, supplies the soul with wings, promotes the flight of the imagination; music gives life and fun to everything that exists ... It can be called the embodiment of everything beautiful and everything sublime.

Goethe - Music is the universal language of mankind.

O music! Echo of a distant harmonious world! Sigh of an angel in our soul! When the word freezes, and the hug, and the eye filled with tears, when our dumb hearts languish alone behind the bars of our chest - oh, then only thanks to you can they send each other a response from their prisons, unite their distant moans in one desert. — Jean Paul

R-Bugner - The Most The best music will have an unenviable fate if he trusts mediocre poetry.

Music washes away the dust of everyday life from the soul. – B. Averbakh

Any art strives to become music. Walter Pater

Tolstoy LN – Music shows a person the possibilities of greatness that are in his soul.

Emerson W. - ... Note to yourself when herds or young horses rush wildly In the steppes A dashing herd - they gallop madly, Roar and neigh - then the blood plays in them. Hot. But as soon as they hear Only the sound of a trumpet or some other Sound of music - as they become rooted to the spot All instantly, and a wild look Under the power of a charming melody Will pass into humility and meekness ...

Music during dinner is an insult to both the cook and the violinist. – G. Chesterton

Always play as if the artist is listening to you. – R. Schumann

Mr. Handel - Music - in best sense this word - less in need of novelty; on the contrary, the older it is, the more correct it is, the stronger its influence.

Music is the true universal human speech. – K. Yu. Weber

Nothing recalls the past like music; it not only recalls it, but evokes it, and like the shadows of those dear to us, it appears wrapped in a mysterious and melancholy haze. – Anna Steel

Music alone is the language of the world and does not need translation, for it speaks to the soul. – B. Averbakh

If a person is not philanthropic, what will he understand in music? Confucius

Aristotle - There is no living creature on earth So hard, cool, hellishly evil, So that music could not make a revolution in it even for one hour. He who does not carry music in himself, Who is cold to charming harmony, He can be a traitor, a liar, a Robber, the souls of his movement are Dark as night, and, like Erebus, His affection is black. Do not trust such a person.

There is no sweeter music in the world than the sound of your favorite voice. – J. La Bruyère

The song is like a gentle haze that, rising from the lake, spills over the silent valley. – Ossian

Music cannot think, but it can embody thought. – R. Wagner

K. Beber - Any music is coming from the heart and must again reach the heart.

Give me the laundry bill and I'll set it to music. Gioacchino Rossini

Longfellow G. – Music drowns out sadness.

The only possible commentary on a musical composition is another musical composition. Igor Stravinsky

The kind of melancholy that torments me is beyond words. We need music here.

Perfect music brings the heart into exactly the same state as one experiences when enjoying the presence of a beloved being, that is, music gives, undoubtedly, the brightest happiness that is possible on earth. Stendhal

Music is the highest art in the world. Lev Tolstoy

The field of music is spiritual unrest. The purpose of music is to arouse these excitements, and she herself is also inspired by them. — George Sand

B. Arnim - When music cries, all mankind cries with it, all nature cries.

Whoever does not play with the piano does not play on it either. – R. Schumann

Music is the poetry of the air. — Jean Paul

Goethe I. - Music is an acoustic composition that makes us hungry for life, just as well-known pharmaceutical compositions make us hungry for food.

Music, like rain, seeps into the heart drop by drop and enlivens it. — Rollan R.

A. Bergson - Music is a higher revelation than wisdom and philosophy.

Playing the piano - finger movement; piano performance is a movement of the soul. Usually we hear only the first. – A. Rubinstein

Klyuchevsky V. - And the one whom we call music For lack of a name best name Will save us?

Shakespeare W. - Music with its melody brings us to the very edge of eternity and gives us the opportunity to comprehend its greatness within a few minutes.

Emerson W. - Music during dinner is an insult to both the cook and the violinist.

G. Hauptmann - I would be very sorry if my music only entertained my listeners: I tried to make them better.

Music is a part of our life, a part of every person. In one way or another musical direction, he seeks self-expression and strives for self-knowledge. Music helps to have fun, it can also make you think and help you get to know your inner world. We offer you an interesting selection of quotes, aphorisms and sayings about music that will help you understand how important music is in life.

Music is immortal. Whoever believes that listening to old songs is not fashionable, he not only understands nothing in music, he does not understand anything in life either. The music that performers give from the heart is eternal. Creativity is proof of this. legendary bands and performers. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine published the article Immortals: 50 the greatest performers of all time." This list includes such legendary names as the Beatles, Elvis Presley, Bob Marley, Nirvana, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Elton John, Quinn, Tina Turner and others. As for the Russian stage, it also has its own luminaries. Among them are Alla Pugacheva, Philip Kirkorov, Valery Leontiev, group Tender May and etc.

There are many musical styles and directions, but, the love of music should always begin with the classics. Among the most famous composers who created brilliant works, it is worth mentioning such names as L. Beethoven, A. Mozart, J. Bach, J. Strauss, P. Tchaikovsky, F. Schubert.

Music drowns out sadness (W. Shakespeare).

But sad music can only strengthen it.

Music is the universal language of mankind (Longfellow).

We can listen to the music of other peoples without the need for translation.

The greatness of art is most clearly manifested in music. (Goethe).

Neither painting nor sculpture leaves as many memories as music.

Life would be a mistake without music (F. Nietzsche).

Maybe without music, there would be no life - people would die of longing.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture (D. Byrne).

Music needs to be listened to, and the soul will talk about it.

Music is a powerful source of thought. Without musical education, full mental development is impossible. (V. Sukhomlinsky).

Musical education should begin at birth.

Music cannot think, but it can embody thought. (R. Wagner).

Music with thoughts is not necessarily music and words, sometimes a melody without words embodies much more thoughts than with them.

Aphorisms

Music always plays to win, even when it's sad.

RaHappiness and sadness go hand in hand with music...

Music is not a hobby for me, not even a passion. Music is me.

Everyone finds their reflection in music.

Music is a natural sedative.

No sedative will soothe you like music.

Music is shorthand for feelings.

Music reflects all feelings, emotions and achievements.

Music is the poetry of the air.

Notes can be written on paper, but the music itself can only be in the air and live in the hearts.

Living without music is like breathing without air.

Who does not love music, he does not live.

Music is something worth having ears for.

This is an art that cannot be comprehended with the eyes.

Quotes of great people and musicians

Classical music is the basis of a civilized society. And a sign of a refined mind (Henry Morgan).

Musical taste is primarily a love for the classics.

Music is the mediator between the life of the mind and the life of the senses. Music is a higher revelation than wisdom and philosophy (L. Beethoven).

Philosophy is different for everyone, but music is the same for everyone.

Music is the best solace for a sad person (M. Luther).

Oddly enough, but when we feel bad, we turn on sad music, but it makes it more fun.

Music, like rain, seeps into the heart drop by drop and revives it. (R. Rollan).

Music can heal wounds.

The purpose of music is to touch hearts (I. Bach).

And to penetrate into the soul ...

Music rules autocratically and makes you forget about everything else (W. Mozart).

She leaves a mark on the soul that never fades.

Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between them (W. Mozart).

About music and soul

Music is not Bach, and not Beethoven, but a can opener for opening the soul.

No one and nothing can penetrate the soul like music.

Music brings peoples and nationalities together, destroys the language barrier.

Genius, opening the lid of the piano, opens the souls wide open to everyone!

And only the insensitive and soulless remain indifferent to music.

Only the greatest art - music - can touch the depths of the soul.

Music not only excites the blood, but also touches the soul for the living.

Music is the only universal language, it does not need to be translated, soul speaks to soul in it.

Literature is translated - the meaning and original essence are lost, and music always retains its authenticity.

Music washes away the dust of everyday life from the soul.

Music heals and cleanses a person.

Music alone is the language of the world and does not need translation, for it speaks to the soul.

The soul is able to understand music without any translators.

About rock music

When Choi died, everyone became rockers. Died MichaelJackson - popovikami. Cheers, Elton John!

Musicians die, music remains forever alive.

Rock is the ability to bring freedom into the world, into the minds of people.

If you want to feel freedom, go to a rock concert.

Rock is movement, it is history, it is truth and freedom, it is a force that can move mountains and unite common efforts. In rock there is no place for hypocrisy, window dressing, parody, lies. Rock is not just music. Rock music is life.

Listening to rock, you want to live and create, and not sit and do nothing.

Rock should be hard enough for guys and cute enough for girls. This way everyone will be happy and there will be much more fun.

For many centuries, music lives in the hearts of people, makes us create, gives inspiration and helps us discover new talents. There are no less brilliant paintings and amazing poems written under the influence of music than the stars in the sky.

For each of us, music is a piece of the soul, something that cannot be described in words. But there are those who have found suitable letters and created statements that capture the essence of music with amazing clarity. Perhaps some of the thoughts of great minds will coincide with your feelings and emotions?

Sayings about the music of great composers

"Music is a people's need."
"Music is the mediator between the life of the mind and the life of the senses."
"Music is a higher revelation than wisdom and philosophy."
"Music should strike fire from people's hearts"(Ludwig van Beethoven).

"Music, even in the most terrible dramatic situations, must always captivate the ear, always remain music" (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart).

"Real music is always revolutionary, it unites people, disturbs them, calls them forward.
Real music is capable of expressing only humane feelings, only progressive humane ideas.
Music accompanies a person throughout life. It is difficult to imagine human life without music. Without the sounds of music, it would be incomplete, deaf, poor ... People need all kinds of music - from the simple tune of a flute to the sound of a huge symphony orchestra, from a simple popular song to Beethoven's sonatas.
Love and study the great art of music. It will open to you a whole world of high feelings, passions, thoughts. It will make you spiritually richer. Thanks to music, you will find new powers unknown to you before. You will see life in new colors and colors" (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich).

"The purpose of music is to touch hearts" (Johann Sebastian Bach).

"Musical material, that is, melody, harmony and rhythm, is certainly inexhaustible.
Music is a treasury into which every nationality contributes its own, for the common good. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky).

"Music has no fatherland; its fatherland is the whole universe" (Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin).

"Music cannot think, but it can embody thought" (Richard Wilhelm Wagner).

“Music is the noblest, most cordial, most sincere, most charming, most subtle of all that the human spirit has invented.
Music needs words as little as sculpture." (Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein).

"Music is like a drama. The queen (melody) has more power, but the decision is always with the king" (Robert Schumann).

Sayings about the music of great philosophers

"Music inspires the whole world, provides the soul with wings, promotes the flight of the imagination"(Plato).

"Music ennobles morals.
Music is capable of exerting a certain influence on the ethical side of the soul. (Aristotle).

"Life would be a mistake without music" (Friedrich Nietzsche).

"Music is the unconscious exercise of the soul in arithmetic" (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz) .

“Music encourages us to think eloquently.
Music shows a person the possibilities of greatness that are in his soul. (Ralph Waldo Emerson).

Sayings about the music of great Russian writers

Of the pleasures of life, music yields to one love, But love is also a melody.(Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin).

"Music is the highest art in the world."
"Music is shorthand for feelings."
"Music makes me forget myself, my true position, it takes me to some other, not my position" (Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy).

"Music is intelligence embodied in beautiful sounds" (Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev).

"Don't believe that a person can understand music right away. It's impossible. You have to get used to it first.
Music has more to do with the moral actions of a person than is usually thought.(Vladimir Fedorovich Odoevsky).

"Sayings about the music of great foreign writers
Where there is music, it can't be bad!" (Miguel de Cervantes).

"Music is the poetry of the air.
O music! Echo of a distant harmonious world! The sigh of an angel in our soul!" (Jean Paul Richter).

"Music is thinking noise" (Victor Marie Hugo).

"Music drowns out sadness" (William Shakespeare).

“Music for me is the same poetry, and of all kinds of poetry, it is the most captivating.
Music is dear to us because it is the deepest expression of the soul, the harmonic echo of its joys and sorrows.
Music, like rain, drop by drop seeps into the heart and enlivens it" (Romain Rolland).

"Music is the only world language, it does not need to be translated, the soul speaks to the soul in it"(Berthold Auerbach).

"Music is the universal language of mankind" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).

"Perfect music brings the heart to exactly the same state as one experiences when enjoying the presence of a beloved being, that is, music gives, undoubtedly, the brightest happiness that is possible on earth" (Stendhal).

"The field of music is emotional unrest. The purpose of music is to excite these unrest, and she herself is also inspired by them" (George Sand).

"Music is the language of the soul and the melody of gentle breezes that vibrate the strings of feelings; it is thin fingers resurrecting on the pages of fantasy memories of hours of genuine sorrow and despair, or of brief moments of true joy and fun" (Khalil Gibran).

"Nothing evokes the past with such force as music; it achieves more: when it evokes it, it seems as if it itself passes before us, shrouded, like the shadows of those who are dear to us, with a mysterious and sad cover" (Germaine de Stael).

"Music with its melody brings us to the very edge of eternity and gives us the opportunity for a few minutes to comprehend its greatness" (Thomas Carlyle).

"Sayings about the music of other famous personalities
Music is the true universal human speech" (Carl Julius Weber).

"Music is a powerful source of thought. Without musical education, full-fledged mental development is impossible.
Music unites the moral, emotional and aesthetic spheres of a person. Music is the language of feelings (Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky).

"All art strives to become music" (Walter Horace Pater).

"Music is an acoustic composition that arouses in us an appetite for life, as well-known pharmaceutical compositions arouse an appetite for food" (Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky).

"Music, like any other human language, must be inseparable from the people, from the soil of this people, with its historical development" (Vladimir Vasilyevich Stasov).

"Music is not only an ennobling, educational factor. Music is a healer of health"(Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev).

Of course, much more beautiful things have been said about music. May be. Have we missed your favorite quote or do you have something to say yourself? Team music school"Virtuosi" is looking forward to your own statements with trepidation, and will also be grateful for valuable additions on the topic "Great minds - about music"!
Although ... "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture," said American musician David Byrne.

Music is the mind embodied in beautiful sounds. (Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev)

Music mediator between the life of the mind and the life of the senses. (Ludwig van Beethoven)

Music- source of joy for wise people. (Xun Tzu)

Music is a revelation higher than wisdom and philosophy. (Ludwig Beethoven)

Music- the only world language, it does not need to be translated, the soul speaks to the soul in it. (Berthold Averbakh)

Music- the need of the people. (Ludwig Beethoven)

The greatness of art is most clearly seen in Music. (Johann Wolfgang Goethe)

When we perceive with the ear rhythm And melody, we change mental mood. (Aristotle)

Music is a kind of art that embodies the ideological and emotional content in sound artistic images.

Music is an art whose subject is sound that changes over time.

Music needs words as little as sculpture. (Anton Rubinstein)