Music Quote by Edward Rothstein

“Music does propagate myths and people have tried to make that myth more than it was.”

— Deborah Curtis

“Next to the word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. It controls our hearts, minds and…

— Martin Luther

“Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness,…

— Plato

“How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?”

— Jane Swan

“Music can act as an invisible uniting force that claims the unclaimed and defines the outcasts of a culture.”

— Bob Boilen

“Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. But it is also in terror, because those values…

— Rebecca West

Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we experience it,…

— Pam Brown

“A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music”

— Georg Trakl

Music is our myth of the inner life.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

“Music is the love child birthed from the boundless freedom found in dreams and the rapturous opposition faced in life; for that, we should…

— Dave Matthes

“With a musical work, no matter how intellectual or dramatic its foundation, its test ever will be its value as pure music.”

— Gustav Kobbé