Music Quote by Nicolas Carter

“Sound is a different frequency”

— NightBits

The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.

— Iannis Xenakis

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.

— Anonymous

scales are the grammar of music.

— Frances Parkinson Keyes

Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry…

— Pierre Schaeffer

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

— Claude Debussy

The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

— Dana Gioia

In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects…

— George Crumb

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon…

— Yehudi Menuhin

“Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and…

— Christoph Wolff

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

— Orlando Gibbons

The sound changes from day to day, and even from moment to moment. Do not underestimate the power of music.

— McChristian Pascual Virgilio