Civilized Quote by Franz Liszt

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to…

— Franz Liszt

In the oldest chronicles of the times conserved in Hungary, reports will be found of Gypsy music, but never of any other, either Magyar,…

— Franz Liszt

The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too,…

— Antonin Dvorak

The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's minds are…

— Confucius

When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the people understood…

— Paul Robeson

Governments can help support European music by promoting public awareness that when people take music that doesn't belong to them, they undermine the future…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

“A few days ago I heard a performance of the Sibelius fifth symphony. As the closing bars approached, I experienced exactly the large, swelling…

— J.M. Coetzee

The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.

— Herbie Mann

The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.

— Jean Cocteau

Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal.

— Mark Hoppus

Music is indeed the universal language and unites people.

— Daryl Davis

Music is part of our culture.

— Mohit Chauhan