Music Quotes by Henry Miller

Music is the can-opener of the soul.

— Henry Miller

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

— Henry Miller

We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.

— Henry Miller

We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what…

— Henry Miller

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -…

— Henry Miller

“Their confusion nourishes me, their stuttering is like divine music to my ears.”

— Henry Miller

“At the opera, the music makes no sense; here in the street it has just the right demented touch to give it…

— Henry Miller

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with…

— Henry Miller

America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social…

— Henry Miller

“The world is a cancer eating itself away... I am think that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music…

— Henry Miller

To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It…

— Henry Miller

“We came together in a dance of death and so quickly was I sucked down into the vortex that when I came…

— Henry Miller

“It's as though there were two melodies going on simultaneously: one for private exploitation and the other for the public ear. The…

— Henry Miller

What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the…

— Henry Miller

“Music issuing like fire from the hidden chromosphere of pain, spore and madrepore fructifying the earth, navels vomiting their bright spawn of…

— Henry Miller

When I reflect that the task which the artist implicitly sets himself is to overthrow existing values, to make of the chaos…

— Henry Miller

Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made…

— Henry Miller

If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want…

— Henry Miller

“This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of…

— Henry Miller

“I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps but I will sing. I will sing while you croak,…

— Henry Miller