"I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him."

Music, Play

46

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him."

Exlpore more Music quotes

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Music, People, Ideas, Being

"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Music, Land, World

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Music, Truth, Memory, Happiness

"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Music, Night, Snow, Rain

"I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls."

Tommy Chong, Canadian Actor

Music, Girls

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Music,

"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Music, Happiness, Power, Truth, Wisdom

"A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it."

Hanns Eisler, German Composer

Music, Life

"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Music, Memory

"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

Music, Race, Voice

Explore more quotes by Mary MacLane

"I do not see any beauty in self-restraint."

Beauty, Self

"I love devils."

Love,

"Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm."

Beginning, World

"One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep."

Interest, World

"I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be."

Now, Want

"The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn."

World,

"Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things."

Literature, World

"The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary."

Life, Time, Soul, Emotions

"I want to live quietly."

Want,

"The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then."

Joy, Writing