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"Music is a higher revelation than philosophy."

"I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose"

"We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings."

"Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life...the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend." (1810)

Beethoven's brother once sent him a New Year's card and signed it proudly, 'Land-owner.' Beethoven turned the card over and sent it back signed, 'Ludwig van Beethoven, Brain-owner.'

"Handel is the greatest composer who ever lived. I would bare my head and kneel at his grave."

"Friends applaud, the Comedy is over." (Beethoven's last words)

Arts and Artists
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

Friends and Friendship
Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Music
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven Quotes

"Music is a higher revelation than philosophy."

"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."

"Friends applaud, the Comedy is over." - Beethoven's last words

"Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind, but mankind cannot comprehend."

" I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others."

"To play without passion is inexcusable!"

"I can feel that my strength is growing...I want to seize fate by the throat. It won't bring me low!" - Beethoven on his deafness

"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."

Quotes About Beethoven

"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." - Anonymous

"Though Beethoven wasn't able to hear, he was able to listen" - Anonymous

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. - Sir Thomas Beechman

"Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the
Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years." - William F. Buckley, Jr.

"Some people think a song without words isn't a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he'll kick your ass!" - Eddie Van Halen

"Mozart soothes the soul, Beethoven clears frustration, and Grieg's Morning Mood makes your day, if you listen you will hear the joys of life" - Anonymous

"One is never alone with Beethoven" - Anonymous

"I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven" - Richard Wagner

Quotes by famous Musicians



I write [music] as a sow piddles.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart



"My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a producer."
- Cole Porter


"Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already."
- Gustav Mahler, to Bruno Walter who had stopped to admire mountain scenery in rural Austria.


"I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve."
- Xavier Cugat


"[Musicians] talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art."
- Jean Sibelius, explaining why he rarely invited musicians to his home.


"The amount of money one needs is terrifying..."
- Ludwig van Beethoven


"Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living."
- Kirke Mecham, on his life as a composer


"I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet."
- Niccolo Paganini


"Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day."
- Ringo Starr


"Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats."
- Victor Borge, playing to a half-filled house in Flint, Michigan.

"If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation."
- Oscar Wilde


"Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together."
- Mel Brooks


"life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years."
- William F. Buckley, Jr.


"You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow."
- Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket.


"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
- Mark Twain


"I love Beethoven, especially the poems."
- Ringo Starr


"If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder."
- Walter Damrosch on Aaron Copland


"There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major."
- Sergei Prokofiev


"I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?"
- Dimitri Mitropolous


"God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way."
- Arturo Toscanini to a trumpet player


"Already too loud!"
- Bruno Walter at his first rehearsal with an American orchestra, on seeing the players reaching for their instruments.


"I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere."
- Frederic Chopin


"When she started to play, Steinway himself came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano."
- Bob Hope, on comedienne Phyllis Diller


"Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them."
- Richard Strauss


"In opera, there is always too much singing."
- Claude Debussy


"Oh how wonderful, really wonderful opera would be if there were no singers!"
- Gioacchino Rossini


"Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica."
- Sir Thomas Beecham


"I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse."
- Bing Crosby


"Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though closely rivaled by the indifference of the performing style, is actually surpassed only by the ineptitude of the studio production method. (Strawberry Fields suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band.)"
- Glenn Gould


"It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness."
- Jerry Garcia


Musical Quotes of the Day:

"Music is the Voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows"
MARION C. GARRETY

"I enjoy life.I think I'll enjoy death even more.Life is too confusing."
CAT STEVENS

"Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all."
HELMUT WALCHA

"People think the Beatles know what's going on.We don't.We're just doing it"
JOHN LENNON

"I love Beethoven, epecially the poems".
RINGO STARR

"We always knew something would happen sooner or later.We always had this blind Bethleham star ahead of us. Fame is what every one wants, in some form or another."
PAUL McCARTNEY

"Ow, I feel good"
JAMES BROWN

Last but not least,this seems to be applicable in todays world as well

"I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere."
FREDERICK CHOPIN



Speaking of some Piano trivia:

Did you know that the first upright piano was built in 1800 by Matthias Muller?
Of course the better models of John Issac Hawkins of Philadelphia are the true ancestors of those played today.

It is common knowledge that Napoleon owned a piano. He owned an Erard piano, although it is very doubtful he ever played it at all!!
Although Napoleon did have his namesake continued as the Napoleonic Era.With the Napoleonic era came the birth of the romantic movement in literature,painting and decor as well as in music It was Beethoven who was known as the very first Napoleonic Pianist.

Of course Beethoven cannot be considered just classical or romantic,this would definitely limit his achievements in music.
His creativity developed musical forms beyond that ever attempted at that time.
His Music was full of emotion which seem at times able to sweep from one extreme to the other.
From fortissimi to pianissimi.Human emotion was Beethovens best friend.He was able to capture it truly in the music he composed.

Mozart,Hadyn or Handel did not reveal the dark side or even the compassionate expressive qualities Beethoven was able to portray in his Music.

Beethoven essentially was the first real father of The Napoleonic Romantic Era of Music.


It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites--opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity--where energies flow smoothly in one direction--there will be much doing but no music. - Eric Hoffer

[Music] takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later. - Allan Bloom

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. -- Robert Browning

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. -- William Shakespeare

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. -- Harriet Henry Ward Beecher Stowe

Tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes. -- Beethoven

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

"Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes." -- Bill Cosby

"Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind." -- Lewis Thomas

"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness & of pain: of strength & freedom. The beauty of disappointment & never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, & everlasting beauty of monotony." -- Benjamin Britten

"The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead." -- Igor Stravinsky

"A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become." -- W. H. Auden

"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." -- Sir Thomas Beecham

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

"Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule." -- Samuel Butler

"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music." -- Groucho Marx

"Music is the art of thinking with sounds." -- Jules Combarieu

"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays." -- Oscar Wilde

"There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent." -- Michel de Montaigne

"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end." -- Igor Stravinsky

"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." -- Voltaire

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem." -- George Bernard Shaw

"Wagner's music is better than it sounds." -- Mark Twain

"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between." -- Sir Thomas Beecham

"Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth." -- Ludwig Van Beethoven

"I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500." -- James Brown

"Without music, life is a journey through a desert." -- Pat Conroy

"A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges." -- Benny Green

"If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing." -- Zimbabwe Proverb

"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another." -- Frank Zappa


What do famous people

have to say about music?

What do they say? Plenty!!! Check out these inspiring and sometimes humorous quotes about music.



"I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it."
--James Taylor


". . . I improvised, crazed by the music. . . . Even my teeth and eyes burned with fever. Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone."
--Josephine Baker


"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."
--John Lennon


"Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul."
--Author Unknown


"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."
-- Plato


"There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres."
-- Pythagoras


"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams World losers and world forsakers, on whole the pale moon gleams, but we are movers and shakers of the world forever, it seems."
--Arthur O'Shaughnessy


"The life of the arts far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization."
--John F. Kennedy


"Music may achieve the highest of all missions: She may be a bond between nations, races and states, who are strangers to one another in many ways; She may unite what is disunited, and bring peace to what is hostile."
-- Dr. Max Bendiner


"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosphy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents."
-- Ludwig van Beethoven


"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 an old opera house


"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception." (When asked about his theory of relativity)
-- Albert Einstein


"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best."
-- Henry Van Dyke


"There is a vitality, a life force a quickening that is translated through you into action, an because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is; nor how valuable it is; nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours, clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

You do not have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you.

Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others."
--Martha Graham (famous choreographer)


"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
--Maya Angelou


"Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains."
-- John Philip Sousa


"I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time."
-- Bonnie Raitt


"Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music."
-- Gioacchino Antonio Rossini


"A good composer does not imitate; he steals."
-- Igor Stravinsky


"All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!"
--Yoko Ono


"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another."
-- Frank Zappa


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


"All the sounds on the earth are like music."
--Oscar Hammerstein


"Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson


"...the elephant smoked too much."(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)
--Victor Borge


"If music be the food of love, play on:
give me excess of it..."
--William Shakespeare


"Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time."
--Igor Stravinsky


"We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so."
--B. B. King


"The man that hath no music in himself Nor is not move'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons , strategems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted."
--William Shakespeare


"Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth."
--Ludwig Van Beethoven


"I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500."
--James Brown


"The high note is not the only thing."
--Placido Domingo


"Mozart is sweet sunshine."
-- Antonin Dvorak


"You are the music while the music lasts."
-- T. S. Eliot


"Without Elvis, none of us could have made it."
-- Buddy Holly


"Country music is three chords and the truth."
-- Harlan Howard


"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music."
-- Billy Joel


"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."
-- Charlie Parker

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