Musical Instruments Inspire Creativity

A Month of Musical Quotes

Day 1 A song is a poem set to music. -- Tom T. Hall

Day 2 A stream is music and motion: smooth glides, fast, turbulent riffles and deep pools, each posing a special challenge. -- Nelson Bryant

Day 3 A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. -- W. H. Auden

Day 4 After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley

Day 5 Alas for those who never sing, but die with all their music in them. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Day 6 Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune. -- Miguel de Cervantes

Day 7 All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. -- Walter Pater

Day 8 Architecture in general is frozen music. -- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling

Day 9 Beethoven can write music, thank God -- but he can do nothing else on earth. -- Ludwig van Beethoven

Day 10 Brushes and paints are all I have/ To speak the music in my soul . . . -- Gwendolyn Bennett

Day 11 Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. -- Noel Coward

Day 12 Good music is very close to primitive language. -- Denis Diderot

Day 13 How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Day 14 How monotonous the sounds of the forest would be if the music came only from the Top Ten birds. -- Dan Bennett

Day 15 I am an inventor of music. -- Igor Stravinsky

Day 16 I don't care too much about music. What I like is sounds. -- Dizzy Gillespie

Day 17 I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I've felt it. -- Igor Stravinsky

Day 18 I produce music as an apple-tree produces apples. -- Camille Saint-Saens

Day 19 I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. -- Joan Miró

Day 20 I was born with music within me. -- Ray Charles

Day 21 I write music with an exclamation point! -- Richard Wagner

Day 22 If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land. -- Mencius

Day 23 If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. -- Thomas Carlyle

Day 24 In memory everything seems to happen to music. -- Tennessee Williams

Day 25 Love is a friendship set to music. -- E. Joseph Cossman

Day 26 Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. -- Lawrence Durrell

Day 27 In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain. -- George Szell

Day 28 In music the passions enjoy themselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Day 29 My music is best understood by children and animals. -- Igor Stravinsky

Day 30 Music alone has the power of restoring us to ourselves. -- James G. Huneker

Day 31 When words leave off, music begins. -- Heinrich Heine