Quotes about music by composers, musicians, writers, poets, mathematicians, scientists, philosophers. The purpose of music is to touch hearts

Aphorisms of Russian composers:

1. The job of harmony is to add those features that are not and cannot be in the melody. (Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka)
2. Avoid singing in the company of bad amateurs, as they will either spoil you with excessive praise, which is always harmful, or they will make comments that will offend you. In the company of real musicians, sing boldly, because from them you will not hear anything other than useful instructions. (Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka)
3. You can combine the demands of art with the demands of the century and, taking advantage of the improvement of instruments and performance, write plays that are equally appealing to experts and the common public. (Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka)
4. I want the sound to directly express the word. I want the truth. (Alexander Sergeevich Dargomyzhsky)
5. Music not only gives us pleasure. She teaches a lot. She, like a book, makes us better, smarter, kinder.
6. Spiritual baggage, unlike ordinary baggage, has an amazing property: the larger it is, the easier it is for a person to walk along the roads of life. (Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky)
7. Music is an art that has a great power of emotional impact on a person, and that is why it can play a huge role in the education of the clergy of children and youth. (Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky)
8. Art is perhaps the most amazing miracle of all miracles. created by humanity throughout the history of its existence, and in this miracle feeling, thought and beauty are inextricably linked. Why deceive people, why impoverish their spiritual world by passing off mediocre deformities, devoid of feelings, thoughts, and beauty, as the highest achievements of art? (Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky)
9. Music is most capable of expressing and conveying emotional moods. (Caesar Cui)
10. I understand the people as a great personality, animated by a single idea. This is my task! I tried to resolve it in my opera.
11. ...For me, an important article is a faithful reproduction of folk fantasy, no matter how it manifests itself. (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
12. What a vast, rich world of art, if the target is a person! (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
13. The demands of art from a modern figure are so enormous that they can absorb the whole person. (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
14. Art is a means of conversation with people, and not a goal... Whatever speech I hear, no matter who speaks (the main thing is, no matter what he says), the musical presentation of such a speech is working in my brain... (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
15. I want to do the people: I sleep and see, I eat and think about him, I drink - I imagine him, he is one whole, large, unpainted and without leaf. And what a terrible (truly) wealth of folk speech. What an inexhaustible ore for grasping everything present - the life of the Russian people! (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
16. In the human masses, as in an individual person, there are always the subtlest features that elude the grasp, features that have not yet been touched by anyone: notice and study them in reading, in observation, based on guesses, study with all your gut and feed them to humanity as if it were healthy a dish that I haven’t tried yet - that’s the challenge! Delight and everlasting delight! (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
17. I have put a cross on myself, and with my head raised, I will cheerfully and cheerfully go against everyone towards a bright, strong, righteous goal, towards real art that loves a person, living by his joy, his grief and suffering. (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
18. Life, wherever it may affect; the truth, no matter how salty it may be; bold, sincere speech to people point-blank, this is my starter, this is what I want and this is what I would be afraid to miss. (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
19. Life calls for new musical work, broad musical work; further, even further on the good journey, with great zeal for new shores of the still boundless art! To search for these shores, to search tirelessly, without fear and embarrassment, and to stand firmly on the promised land - this is a great, exciting task! (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
20. The time for writing at leisure has passed. Give your whole self to people - that’s what art needs now. (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
21. A composer, like a poet, sculptor, and painter, is called upon to serve man and the people. He must decorate human life and protect it. He, first of all, is obliged to be a citizen in his art, to glorify human life and lead people to a bright future. This, from my point of view, is the unshakable code of art. (Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev)
22. These are not the times when music was written for a tiny circle of aesthetes. Now huge crowds of people have come face to face with serious music and are waiting questioningly. Composers, take this moment seriously; if you push these crowds away, they will go to jazz or to where “Marusya went and lies in the mortuary.” if you keep them, you will get an audience that has never existed anywhere and at any time, but it does not follow from this that you need to adapt to this audience. Facilitation is fraught with an element of insincerity, and nothing good has ever come from faking. The masses want great music, great events, great love, merry dancing. They understand much more than some composers think and want to improve. (Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev)
23. Music must first of all be loved; must come from the heart and be addressed to the heart. Otherwise, music must be deprived of the hope of being an eternal and imperishable art.
24. Composing music is an integral part of my existence, just like breathing or eating are necessary functions of life. (Sergei Vasilyevich Rahmaninov)
25. The highest quality of any art is its sincerity! (Sergei Vasilyevich Rahmaninov)
26. Music is the noblest, most heartfelt, most soulful, most charming, subtlest of all that the human spirit has invented! (Anton Rubinstein)
Performance is the second creation of a musical composition. (Anton Rubinstein)
27. You can talk a lot and beautifully without saying anything remarkable; In music it will be an extraordinary and beautiful instrumentation of insignificant thoughts, in painting it will be a large boarded-up frame for a small, insignificant picture. (Anton Rubinstein)
28. An artist should not be born into wealth. Concerns about his daily bread are even useful to him at first: they add drama to his work. (Anton Rubinstein)
29. Thinkers and scientists keep their heads down and mostly forward; artists and poets keep their heads tilted back and usually look up. (Anton Rubinstein)
30. The nationality of the country in which the writer was born and raised will always be visible in his works, even if he lives in a foreign country and writes in a foreign language. (Anton Rubinstein)
31. Beautiful women do not know how to grow old, artists do not know how to leave the stage in time: both are wrong. (Anton Rubinstein)
32. What a person cannot do if he wants! He must be able to make the impossible possible. I choose this as my motto! (Anton Rubinstein)
33. Music is the noblest, heartiest, most soulful, most charming, subtlest of all that the human spirit has invented. (Anton Rubinstein)
34. The main and integral features of the new in musical art are modernity and simplicity.
35. Real art, in addition to purely aesthetic pleasure, pleasure and beauty (and great art fosters a sense of real beauty), brings enormous benefits: it educates a person! (Georgy Vasilievich Sviridov)
36. Oh life, oh creative impulse,
All-creating desire:
You are everything. You are an ocean of passions, then raging. then calm.
I love your walls, I love your joy (I only love despair). (A.N. Scriabin)
37. Creativity cannot be fully explained in words. everything is my creativity. But it itself exists only in its creations; it is completely identical with them. I am nothing. I am only what I create. (A.N. Scriabin)
38. We must not forget that only that which has its roots in the people is strong. (S.I.Taneev)
39. I personally have very great confidence in the musical abilities of the Russian people. We must take care that the dormant creative forces of our people break through and manifest themselves in creations that stand on the level of those immortal folk melodies that constitute unattainable models for us, learned musicians. (S.I.Taneev)
40. Fame makes people feel that there is power in them, in themselves, and there is nothing more pleasant than feeling power in yourself. (S.I.Taneev)
41. Only by mastering the experience of the great musicians of the past, developing realistic traditions, can one create works worthy in their content and level of our era. (T.N. Khrennikov)
42. Songfulness is, I think, that melodic beginning that should be present in every work of any composer, acquiring its own specific, individual features in any genre of music. (T.N. Khrennikov)
43. Beauty in music does not lie in a heap of effects and harmonic oddities, but in simplicity and naturalness. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
44. Music is a treasury into which every nationality contributes its own, for the common benefit. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
45. Only that music can touch, shock and hurt, which poured out from the depths of a soul excited by inspiration. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
46. I would like with all the strength of my soul for my music to spread, so that the number of people who love it, who find consolation and support in it, increases. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
47. I grew up in the wilderness, from my earliest childhood, I was imbued with the inexplicable beauty of the characteristic features of Russian folk music. I passionately love the Russian element in all its manifestations. I am Russian in the fullest sense of the word. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
48. Russian folk song is a most precious example of folk art. Beauty in music does not lie in a heap of effects and harmonic oddities, but in simplicity and naturalness. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
49. Dissonance is the greatest power of music. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
50. Inspiration is the kind of guest who does not like to visit the lazy. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
51. Where the heart is not touched, there can be no music. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
52. Even a person gifted with the stamp of genius does not create anything not only great, but also average, if he does not work like hell... (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
53. Everyone serves the common good in his own way, but art is, in my opinion, a necessary need for humanity. Outside of my musical sphere, I am not able to serve for the good of my neighbor. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
54. What is alien to the human heart cannot be a source of musical inspiration! (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
55. Love and study the great art of music. It will open up to you a whole world of high feelings, passions, thoughts. It will make you spiritually richer. Thanks to music, you will find new strengths in yourself that were previously unknown to you. You will see life in new tones and colors.
56. Music lovers and connoisseurs are not born, but become... To love music, you must first of all listen to it. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich)
57. Melody is a thought, it is a movement, it is the soul of a musical work. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich)
58. Music accompanies a person throughout his life... It is difficult to imagine a person’s life without music. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich)
59. Without the sounds of music, she would be incomplete, deaf, poor. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich)
60. People need all types of music - from a simple pipe tune to the sound of a huge symphony orchestra, from a simple popular song to Beethoven's sonatas. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich)
61. The treasures of music are inexhaustible, and its possibilities in the future are also inexhaustible. It will forever grow and develop, just as the human spirit will forever grow and expand. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich)
62. Real music is capable of expressing only humane feelings, only advanced humane ideas... We do not know a single piece of music that glorifies anger, hatred, robbery. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich)
63. An artist’s talent is not his personal property, it belongs to the people. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich)
64. Only that art will live, flourish, and be deeply rooted in life, which sees its calling in serving the great creator of history - the people. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich)

STATEMENTS ABOUT MUSIC

Aphorisms of foreign composers:

The purpose of music is to touch hearts (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Music - a mediator between the life of the mind and the life of feelings. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Music must strike fire from people's hearts. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Give thanks wherever you can

Love freedom above all else

And even at the royal throne

Do not renounce the truth. (Ludwig van Beethoven)

Describing is the job of painting; poetry can also consider itself fortunate in this regard compared to music; its field is not as limited as mine. But mine extends much further into other spheres, and my possessions are not so easy to encroach on. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Music is a revelation higher than wisdom and philosophy. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Music is a popular need. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
There are no barriers for a person with talent and love of work. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
The highest characteristic of a person is perseverance in overcoming the most severe obstacles. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
...everyone who acts morally and nobly can, by virtue of this very fact, endure misfortune. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
A true artist, who loves art most of all, is never satisfied with himself and tries to go further and further. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
There is no rule that cannot be broken for the sake of something more beautiful. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
No outposts have yet been erected that would say to the struggling talent: so far and no further. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Write music It’s not difficult, the hardest thing is to cross out the extra notes. ( Johannes Brahms)
Music cannot think, but it can embody thought. ( Richard Wagner)
Melody is the only form of music; Without melody, music is unthinkable, and music and melody are inseparable. ( Richard Wagner)
You just have to want it, and there will be art! ( Richard Wagner)
The mistake in the artistic genre of opera was that the means of expression (music) was made the goal, and the goal of expression (drama) the means. ( Richard Wagner)
True art can rise from its state of civilized barbarism to its worthy height only on the shoulders of our great social movement; he has a common goal with him, and they can achieve it only if they both recognize it. This goal is a beautiful and strong person; Let the Revolution give him Strength, Art - Beauty. ( Richard Wagner)
...art worth living outside of life must perish... ( Richard Wagner)
Music is the true universal human speech. (Carl Maria von Weber)
To compose music, you must first of all have it in your soul! ( Giuseppe Verdi)
Music should not protect us from life. After all, everything we live by: our suffering, our joys - all of this should be heard in full voice in music. In it, as in life, we must be sincere. ( Giuseppe Verdi)
Melody, harmony, recitation, passionate singing, orchestral effects and colors are nothing more than means. ( Giuseppe Verdi)
Use these tools to create good music. ( Giuseppe Verdi)
Good instrumentation does not consist in the variety and unusualness of effects - it is good. when something is expressed. ( Giuseppe Verdi)
The beauty of music is in the melody. ( Joseph Haydn)
I would be very sorry. if only my music would entertain my listeners: I strived to make them better. (George Frideric Handel)
Simplicity, truth and naturalness are the three great principles of beauty in all works of art. (Christoph Wellibald Gluck)
Words sometimes need music, but music doesn't need anything. ( Edvard Grieg)
Art is a heart that can think. ( Charles Gounod)
I managed to see the big world, but everywhere and always I remained who I was, a simple Czech musician. ( Antonin Dvorak)
Music is the arithmetic of sounds, just as optics is the geometry of light. ( Claude Debussy)
Art music grows out of folk music. It is its close continuation, an elegant advanced degree. ( Zoltan Kodaly)
Music is the language of the invisible world around us and, like everything mysterious, it deeply excites my entire being. ( Ljubica Maric)
Music rules autocratically and makes you forget about everything else. (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Poetry is the obedient daughter of music. (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Music, even in the most terrible dramatic situations, should always captivate the ear, always remain music! (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Music is the architecture of sounds; this is a plastic art that forms the vibration of air instead of clay... ( Camille Saint-Saens)
Music has no fatherland; fatherland her universe. ( Fryderyk Chopin)
The expression of thoughts through tones, the discovery of feelings through these tones, the art of expressing oneself in tones - this is music! ( Fryderyk Chopin)
Music is like drama. The queen (melody) enjoys more power, but the decision always remains with the king. ( Robert Schumann)
Who doesn't play with piano , does not play on it either. (Robert Schumann )
The fingers should create on the piano what the head wants, and not vice versa. (Robert Schumann )
Always play as if the artist is listening to you. ( Robert Schumann)
...Music in its highest sense is capable of embodying all the multifaceted concreteness of real life: the most subtle and special states of the soul, the life of an individual and the life of nations, the national character of the country and its nature! ( Robert Schumann)
For me, a poetic program is nothing more than a creative occasion both for the creation of an expressive form and for the musical development of my feelings, and not just a musical description of well-known life events. ( Richard Strauss)
I’m drawing... I’m drawing a sonata... What a joy it is to work hard, furiously, without a break, almost to the point of losing consciousness, forgetting everything. (Mikalojus Ciurlionis)
Music must come from the heart to reach the heart. ( George Enescu)

Aphorisms of outstanding foreign figures:

MUSIC IS THE GREATEST POWER. SHE CAN MAKE A PERSON LOVE AND HATE, FORGIVE AND KILL." (From the teachings of ancient Greek philosophers)
When we perceive with the ear rhythm and melody , our mental mood changes. (Aristotle )
Music washes away the dust of everyday life from the soul. (Bertold Averbakh )
Music alone is a world language and does not need translation, for the soul speaks. (Bertold Averbakh )
Music is the only universal language, it does not need to be translated, soul speaks to soul. ( Averbakh)
We don’t listen to music, but music listens to us. ( Theodor Adorno)
What is music if not sounds that change and move through time. (Leonard Bernstein)
What is music ? It occupies a place between thought and appearance; like a predawn mediator, she stands between spirit and matter; akin to both, she is different from them; it is a spirit in need of measured time; this is matter that does without space ( Heinrich Heine)
Music is the last word of art... ( Heinrich Heine)
The greatness of art is most clearly manifested in music. ( Johann Wolfgang Goethe )
Music is the highest of the arts.(Johann Wolfgang Goethe )
Music that is “pleasing to the ear” is the same as a book that is “pleasing to the eye.” ( Joseph Hoffman)
The secret of music is that it finds an inexhaustible source where speech falls silent. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann)
Of all the noises known to man, music is the most precious noise. ( Théophile Gautier)
Write about music - it's like dancing about architecture. ( Frank Zappa)
Music with its melody takes us to the very edge of eternity and gives us the opportunity to comprehend its greatness within a few minutes ( Thomas Carlyle)
The destruction of any state begins with the destruction of its music. A people without pure and bright music is doomed to degeneration. (Chinese proverb)
Music unites peoples, its language is understandable to everyone, it helps to comprehend the spiritual make-up of a nation. ( Van Cliburn)
Music is the art of sadness and joy for no reason. (Tadeusz Kotarbiński)
There is no music sweeter in the world than the sound of your favorite voice. ( Jean de La Bruyère)
Music is the universal language of humanity. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Music is the best consolation for a sad person. ( Martin Luther)
Without music life would be a mistake. ( Friedrich Nietzsche )
God gave us music so that we would first of all be drawn upward by it... ( Friedrich Nietzsche )
Music inspires the whole world, supplies the soul with wings, promotes the flight of imagination. ( Plato)
...the greatest of the miracles of music, which acts only through movement, is its ability to convey to them even an image of peace. Sleep, the silence of the night, solitude and even silence are among the musical pictures. Painting, which does not have such power, is not capable of imitating music the way the latter imitates it... ( Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Expressiveness is a quality thanks to which a musician feels and powerfully conveys all the ideas that he must convey, and all the feelings that he must express... ( Jean Jacques Rousseau)
The field of music is emotional unrest. The purpose of music is to excite these emotional disturbances, and it itself is also inspired by them. ( George Sand)
Music revives in us the awareness of our mental abilities; its sounds inspire us with the noblest efforts. (Anne-Louise Germaine de Staël)
Nothing evokes the past with such force as music; she achieves more: when she calls it, it seems as if it itself passes before us, shrouded, like the shadows of those who are dear to us, in a mysterious and sad veil. (Anne-Louise Germaine de Staël)
...Music, when it is perfect, undoubtedly gives the brightest happiness. ( Stendhal)
Music was perhaps my strongest and most costly passion... I would walk hundreds of leagues, I would agree to stay in prison for weeks, just to listen to “Don Giovanni” (Mozart’s opera) or “The Secret Marriage” ( opera by Cimarosa), and I can’t imagine why else I would make such sacrifices. ( Stendhal)
With the help of the magical language of music, you can instantly find yourself in an amazingly mysterious and wonderful world of beauty and inspiration. (Leopold Stokowski)
Music - the source of joy for wise people. ( Xun Tzu)
It is impossible to raise a full-fledged person without instilling in him a sense of beauty. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Music encourages us to think eloquently. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Aphorisms of Russian composers:

The job of harmony is to add those features that are not and cannot be in the melody. (Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka)
Avoid singing in the company of bad amateurs, as they will either spoil you with excessive praise, which is always harmful, or they will make comments that will offend you. In the company of real musicians, sing boldly, because from them you will not hear anything other than useful instructions. (Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka)
You can combine the demands of art with the demands of the century and, taking advantage of the improvement in instruments and performance, write plays that are equally appealing to experts and the common public. (Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka)
I want the sound to directly express the word. I want the truth. (Alexander Sergeevich Dargomyzhsky)
Music not only gives us pleasure. She teaches a lot. She, like a book, makes us better, smarter, kinder. ()
Spiritual luggage, unlike ordinary luggage, has an amazing property: the larger it is, the easier it is for a person to walk along the roads of life. (Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky)
Music is an art that has a great power of emotional impact on a person, and that is why it can play a huge role in the education of the clergy of children and youth. (Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky)
Art is perhaps the most amazing miracle of all miracles. created by humanity throughout the history of its existence, and in this miracle feeling, thought and beauty are inextricably linked. Why deceive people, why impoverish their spiritual world by passing off mediocre deformities, devoid of feelings, thoughts, and beauty, as the highest achievements of art? (Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky)
Music is most capable of expressing and conveying emotional moods. ( Caesar Cui)
I mean the people as a great personality, animated by a single idea. This is my task! I tried to resolve it in my opera. (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
...For me, an important article is a faithful reproduction of folk fantasy, no matter how it manifests itself.
What a vast, rich world of art, if the target is a person!(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
The demands of art from a modern figure are so enormous that they can absorb the whole person.(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
Art is a means of conversation with people, and not a goal... Whatever speech I hear, no matter who speaks (the main thing is, no matter what he says), the musical presentation of such a speech is working in my brain...(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
I want to make a people: I sleep and see, I eat and think about him, I drink - I imagine him, he is one whole, large, unpainted and without leaf. And what a terrible (truly) wealth of folk speech. What an inexhaustible ore for grasping everything present - the life of the Russian people!(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
In the human masses, as in an individual person, there are always subtle features that elude the grasp, features that have not yet been touched by anyone: to notice and study them in reading, in observation, by guesses, to study with all your gut and feed them to humanity, like a healthy dish, which I haven’t tried yet - that’s the challenge! Delight and everlasting delight!(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
I have put a cross on myself, and with my head raised, I will cheerfully and cheerfully go against everyone towards a bright, strong, righteous goal, towards real art that loves a person, living by his joy, his grief and suffering.(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
Life, wherever it may affect; the truth, no matter how salty it may be; bold, sincere speech to people point-blank, this is my starter, this is what I want and this is what I would be afraid to miss.(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
Life calls for new musical work, broad musical work; further, even further on the good journey, with great zeal for new shores of the still boundless art! To search for these shores, to search tirelessly, without fear and embarrassment, and to stand firmly on the promised land - this is a great, exciting task!(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
The time for writing at leisure has passed. Give your whole self to people - that’s what art needs now.(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
The composer, like the poet, sculptor, painter, is called upon to serve man and the people. He must decorate human life and protect it. He, first of all, is obliged to be a citizen in his art, to glorify human life and lead people to a bright future. This, from my point of view, is the unshakable code of art. (Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev)
These are not the times when music was written for a tiny circle of aesthetes. Now huge crowds of people have come face to face with serious music and are waiting questioningly. Composers, take this moment seriously; if you push these crowds away, they will go to jazz or to where “Marusya went and lies in the mortuary.” if you keep them, you will get an audience that has never existed anywhere and at any time, but it does not follow from this that you need to adapt to this audience. Facilitation is fraught with an element of insincerity, and nothing good has ever come from faking. The masses want great music, great events, great love, merry dancing. They understand much more than some composers think and want to improve. (Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev)
Music must first of all be loved; must come from the heart and be addressed to the heart. Otherwise, music must be deprived of the hope of being an eternal and imperishable art (Sergei Vasilyevich Rahmaninov)
Composing music is an integral part of my existence, just like breathing or eating are necessary functions of life. (Sergei Vasilyevich Rahmaninov)
The highest quality of any art is its sincerity! (Sergei Vasilyevich Rahmaninov)
Music is the noblest, most heartfelt, most soulful, most charming, subtlest of all that the human spirit has invented! (Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein)

Performance is the second creation of a musical composition. (Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein)

You can talk a lot and beautifully without saying anything remarkable; In music it will be an extraordinary and beautiful instrumentation of insignificant thoughts, in painting it will be a large boarded-up frame for a small, insignificant picture. (Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein)
An artist should not be born into wealth. Concerns about his daily bread are even useful to him at first: they add drama to his work. (Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein)
Thinkers and scientists keep their heads down and mostly forward; artists and poets keep their heads tilted back and usually look up. (Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein)
The nationality of the country in which the writer was born and raised will always be visible in his works, even if he lives in a foreign country and writes in a foreign language. (Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein)
Beautiful women do not know how to grow old, artists do not know how to leave the stage in time: both are wrong. (Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein)
What a person cannot do if he wants! He must be able to make the impossible possible. I choose this as my motto! (Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein)
Music is the noblest, most heartfelt, most soulful, most charming, subtlest of all that the human spirit has invented. (Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein)
The main and integral features of the new in musical art are modernity and simplicity. (Georgy Vasilievich Sviridov)
Real art, in addition to purely aesthetic pleasure, pleasure and beauty (and great art fosters a sense of real beauty), brings enormous benefits: it educates a person! (Georgy Vasilievich Sviridov)
Oh life, oh creative impulse,

All-creating desire:

You are everything. You are an ocean of passions, then raging. then calm.

I love your walls, I love your joy (I only love despair). (Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin)

Creativity cannot be fully explained in words. everything is my creativity. But it itself exists only in its creations; it is completely identical with them. I am nothing. I am only what I create. (Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin)
We must not forget that only that which has its roots in the people is strong. (Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev)
I personally have very great confidence in the musical abilities of the Russian people. We must take care that the dormant creative forces of our people break through and manifest themselves in creations that stand on the level of those immortal folk melodies that constitute unattainable models for us, learned musicians. (Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev)
Fame makes people feel that there is power in them, in themselves, and there is nothing more pleasant than feeling power in yourself. (Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev)
Only by mastering the experience of the great musicians of the past, developing realistic traditions, can one create works worthy in their content and level of our era. (Tikhon Nikolaevich Khrennikov)
Songfulness is, I think, that melodic beginning that should be present in every work of any composer, acquiring its own specific, individual features in any genre of music. (Tikhon Nikolaevich Khrennikov)
Beauty in musicconsists not in a heap of effects and harmonic oddities, but in simplicity and naturalness. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Music there is a treasury into which every nationality contributes its own, for the common benefit. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Only that music can touch, shock and hurt, which poured out from the depths of a soul excited by inspiration. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
I would like with all the strength of my soul for my music to spread, so that the number of people who love it and find consolation and support in it increases. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
I grew up in the wilderness, from my earliest childhood, I was imbued with the inexplicable beauty of the characteristic features of Russian folk music. I passionately love the Russian element in all its manifestations. I am Russian in the fullest sense of the word. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Russian folk song is a most precious example of folk art. Beauty in music does not lie in a heap of effects and harmonic oddities, but in simplicity and naturalness. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Dissonance is the greatest power of music. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Inspiration is the kind of guest who does not like to visit the lazy. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Where the heart is not touched, there can be no music. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Even a person gifted with the stamp of genius does not create anything not only great, but also average, if he does not work like hell... (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Everyone serves the common good in his own way, but art is, in my opinion, a necessary need for humanity. Outside of my musical sphere, I am not able to serve for the good of my neighbor. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
What is alien to the human heart cannot be a source of musical inspiration! (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Love and study great art music . It will open up to you a whole world of high feelings, passions, thoughts. It will make you spiritually richer. Thanks to music, you will find new strengths in yourself that were previously unknown to you. You will see life in new tones and colors. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )
Amateurs and experts music are not born, but become... To love music, you must first listen to it. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )
Melody - this is a thought, this is a movement, this is the soul of a musical work. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )
Music accompanies a person throughout his life... Without music it is difficult to imagine a person's life. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )
Without the sounds of music, she would be incomplete, deaf, poor. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )
People need all types of music - from a simple pipe tune to the sound of a huge symphony orchestra, from a simple popular song to Beethoven's sonatas. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )
The treasures of music are inexhaustible, and its possibilities in the future are also inexhaustible. It will forever grow and develop, just as the human spirit will forever grow and expand. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )
Real music is capable of expressing only humane feelings, only advanced humane ideas... We do not know a single piece of music that glorifies anger, hatred, robbery. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )
The artist's talent is not his personal property, it belongs to the people. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )
Only that art will live, flourish, and be deeply rooted in life, which sees its calling in serving the great creator of history - the people. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )

Aphorisms of outstanding Russian figures:

Music is living speech, sensitively reflecting reality, just like verbal speech. (Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev)
...music becomes a unity of content-form in the creation of the composer... as the embodiment of the thought-idea intoned by him. (Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev)
...melody was and remains the most predominant manifestation of music and its most understandable and expressive element. (Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev)
Composers should strive for a language of music that would be heard by hearts of many millions - from mass songs to operas, cantatas and symphonies as high intellectual generalizations. This is where ideas and the forms that bring out these ideas should be directed. We are not talking here about cheap simplicity for “non-understanding” and supposedly lagging listeners, but about majestic simplicity, always understandable to people who sincerely crave excitement from their native art, and always inherent in the universally significant works of the great democrats of music. (Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev)
The influence of music on children is beneficial, and the sooner they begin to experience it for themselves, the better for them. (Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky)
Of all the arts subject to man, only music is outside him, above him. Beyond life and above life. ( Pavel Vezhinov)
The role of music is truly invaluable in the formation of human personality. Having the ability to touch the innermost strings of the soul, awaken bright, noble impulses in a person, and embrace the masses with a single mood, music is rightfully considered one of the highest manifestations of human culture. ()
Musical art is one of the most powerful means of uniting the broad masses in a single feeling, a single impulse. (Alexander Borisovich Goldenveiser)
Only the greatest art - music - can touch the depths of the soul. (Maksim Gorky )
I don’t know of any other art that I can trust so boundlessly as music... even literature, which more than 30 years ago became my desired profession and subjugated my entire existence, even the wisest book of a great writer or the most moving poems of the best poets, No matter how passionately I love them, they do not convince me so much that they are right and at the same time do not give me such independence of ideas. as it happens when I listen to music! ( Lev Kassil)
Music is an acoustic composition that arouses in us an appetite for life, just as well-known pharmaceutical compositions arouse an appetite for food. (Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky)
Music makes the happy even happier, the unhappy - even more unhappy. ( V. Krachkovsky)
Music... has an unusually invigorating and cleansing power. Word and action become highly significant when music takes them on its wings. ()
Music is sounds, but music is also a whole mass of feelings that are revealed in these sounds for sensitive people.(Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky)
I don't know if there is a single great musician who could be said to be obsolete. The simplest song, coming from the depths of thousands of years, is alive. (Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky)
Music is a sphere in which human art has become immeasurably higher than nature. (Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov)
Music has a greater connection with a person’s moral actions than is usually thought. (Vladimir Fedorovich Odoevsky)
Don't believe that a person can understand music right away. This is impossible. You have to get used to it first. (Vladimir Fedorovich Odoevsky)
Of life's pleasures

Music is inferior to love alone,

But love is also a melody... (Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin "The Stone Guest")

I've always loved music. If I didn't have to listen to her for a long time, I became sad. (Ilya Efimovich Repin)
Oh music! The echo of a distant harmonious world! The sigh of an angel in our soul! ( Jean Paul Richter)
Art is inexhaustible, like life. And nothing allows us to feel this better than never-ending music. than the ocean of music that fills the centuries. ( Romain Rolland)
Music is a revelation higher than wisdom. ( Romain Rolland)
Music is dear to us because it is the deepest expression of the soul, the harmonious echo of its joys and sorrows. ( Romain Rolland)
Music, like rain, seeps into the heart drop by drop and revives it. ( Romain Rolland)
You can't live without music. This, in my opinion, is the strongest, most powerful art, which has amazing power over the souls of people. (Martiros Sergeevich Saryan)
For me, the phrase “man and song” sounds like “man and air.” If there is not enough air, the person suffocates. (Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov)
Music is the language of the soul; this is the area of feelings and moods; this is the life of the soul expressed in sounds. (Alexander Nikolaevich Serov)
Nowhere has folk song played and does not play such a role as in our people; nowhere has it been preserved in such richness, strength and diversity as in ours. This gave a special character and physiognomy to Russian music and called it to its own special tasks. (Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov)
...without thought there is no poetry, without melody there is no music. (Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov)
Music, just like any other human language, must be inseparable from the people, from the soil of this people, from its historical development. (Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov)
Music, melody, the beauty of musical sounds are an important means of moral and mental education of a person, a source of nobility of heart and purity of soul. Music opens people's eyes to the beauty of nature, moral relations, and work. Thanks to music, ideas about the sublime, majestic, and beautiful awaken in a person not only in the world around him, but also in himself. Music is a powerful means of self-education. ()
Music is a powerful source of thought. Without musical education, full mental development is impossible. (Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky)
Music unites the moral, emotional and aesthetic spheres of a person. Music is the language of feelings. (Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky)
A genius, opening the lid of a piano, opens the souls wide open to everyone! (Leonid Semenovich Sukhorukov)
True muses play on the strings of their soul. (Leonid Semenovich Sukhorukov)
The muse is friends with those who are in the finest harmony with her. (Leonid Semenovich Sukhorukov)
The music of the soul is the unsung song of life. (Leonid Semenovich Sukhorukov)
The pianist has left... But his piano plays in his soul! (Leonid Semenovich Sukhorukov)
The higher the good note, the more refined its harmony should be. (Leonid Semenovich Sukhorukov)
Music - this is a shorthand for feelings (Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy )
Music - this is intelligence embodied in beautiful sounds. (Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev)
Melody is music, the main basis of all music... (Anton Pavlovich Chekhov)
Great composers have always and first of all paid attention to melody as the leading principle in music. Melody is music, the main basis of all music, since a perfect melody implies and brings to life its harmonious design. (Anton Pavlovich Chekhov)

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

Ancient Greek philosopher, student of Plato. Teacher of Alexander the Great. The first scientist who created a system of philosophy that covers all aspects of human life and development.

Music is capable of having a certain effect on the ethical side of the soul, and since music has such properties, then obviously it should be included in the number of subjects in the education of youth.

Bart Karl (1886-1968)

Swiss theologian*. While a civil servant in Germany, he refused to take the oath of allegiance to Hitler. He wrote a work in 13 volumes, “Church Dogmatics**”.

I don’t know if it’s true that angels only play Bach in the presence of God, but I’m sure that in their home circle they only play Mozart.

* A theologian is a person who studies and expounds the doctrine of God, writes essays about it.

** Dogmatics is a section of theology that sets out the basic rules of a religion.

Belinsky Vissarion Grigorievich (1811-1848)

Russian writer and critic.

From a very early age, children should develop a sense of grace as one of the primary elements of humanity. The influence of music is beneficial, and the sooner they begin to experience it for themselves, the better.

Bekhterev Vladimir Mikhailovich (1857-1927)

Outstanding Russian neuropathologist, physiologist, psychologist, academician. He pointed to economic conditions as the cause of the spread of mental illness, and raised the issue of instilling work skills in teenagers.

Music is not only an ennobling and educational factor. Music is a healer of health.

Gogol Nikolai Vasilievich (1809-1852)

Great Russian writer.

“But if music leaves us, what will happen to our world then?”

Dvorak Antonin (1841-1904)

Czech composer, conductor.

An orchestra is a people, and a quartet is a family.

Derzhavin Gabriel Romanovich (1743 – 1816)

Russian poet. He held senior government positions.

“...music represents invisible objects... depicts only the feeling of the heart and cannot depict anything physical.”

Dickens Charles (1812-1970)

English writer.

The inconspicuous but undeniable influence of music on a person instills humane tastes and aspirations, dispels prejudices, instills humanity and benevolence.

Doga Evgeniy Dmitrievich

Composer. People's Artist of the USSR, People's Artist of Moldova, laureate of the USSR State Prize, academician.

I often look with pity at people who do not understand where they can find the source of a good state of mind and a good mood in general. After all, in music, in literature, in art in general there is so much energy, so many still unexplored sensations, emotions, strengths, possibilities.

Kabalevsky Dmitry Borisovich (1904-1987)

Composer, teacher, educator, People's Artist of the USSR. Author of many works. He developed a system of music education in secondary schools.

Any musical image is an image of a person. Every musical image contains a piece of life.

Karamzin Nikolai Mikhailovich (1766-1826)

Russian writer, historian. Creator of “History of the Russian State.”

Heavenly music! Enjoying you, I rise in spirit and do not envy the angels. Who will prove to me that my soul, convenient for such holy, pure, ethereal joys, did not have something divine, incorruptible in itself? These gentle sounds, blowing like marshmallows onto my heart, could they be the food of death, a brute creature?

Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm (1649-1716)

Outstanding German mathematician, diplomat and philosopher.

Nothing is so pleasant for the senses as consonance in music, and for the mind - consonance in nature, in relation to which the first is only a small example. Music is an imitation of the universal harmony put into the world by God.

Mechnikov Ilya Ilyich (1845-1916)

Russian and French biologist. Nobel Prize winner.

Music is a sphere in which human art has become immeasurably higher than nature.

Plato (428 BC-348 BC)

The greatest philosopher of Ancient Greece, the founder of his own philosophical school - the Academy, which existed for 1000 years. The founder of the idealistic direction in philosophy. He was an Olympic champion in wrestling.

Music inspires the whole world, supplies the soul with wings, promotes the flight of imagination; music gives life and joy to everything that exists... It can be called the embodiment of everything beautiful and sublime.

Rousseau Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)

French writer and composer.

Melody alone is the source of the invincible power that inspired art possesses.

The greatest of the wonders of music, which acts only through movement, is its ability to convey to them even an image of peace. Sleep, the silence of the night, solitude and even silence are among the musical pictures.

Sukhomlinsky Vasily Alexandrovich

Outstanding teacher, corresponding member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences.

Music is a powerful source of thought.

Music is a powerful means of self-education.

Shakespeare William (1564-1616)

English playwright and poet.

There is no living creature on earth

So tough, cool, hellishly evil,

So that I couldn’t at least for an hour

In it, music makes a revolution.

Who does not carry music within himself,

Who is cold to the lovely harmony

He may be a traitor, a liar,

Robber of the soul.

His movements

Dark as night and as Erebus* his love is black.

Don't trust such a person.

Lomonosov Mikhail Vasilievich (1711-1765)

The first world-class Russian scientist, chemist, physicist, geologist, poet.

The sweet sounds of native song and music in the living human soul awaken the mind and nurture high feelings.

Popov Viktor Sergeevich (1934-2008)

Founder, artistic director and chief conductor of the Big Children's Choir of the All-Union Radio and Central Television, artistic director of the Academy of Choral Art (since 2009 named after V.S. Popov), People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of the Presidential Prize of the Russian Federation, professor.

Sveshnikov Alexander Vasilievich (1890-1980)

Choral conductor, People's Artist of the USSR, artistic director of the State Academic Russian Choir of the USSR, founder and artistic director of the Moscow State Choir School, professor.

…One of the most accessible and at the same time most effective ways to introduce people to high musical culture is through playing music in a choir.

Struve Georgy Alexandrovich (1932-2004)

Composer, choirmaster, educator. Creator of a system of mass training in choral singing.

The choir is a prototype of an ideal society based on a single aspiration and harmonious breathing, a society in which it is important to hear the other, to listen to each other, a society in which individuality is not suppressed, but is fully revealed.

…singing, especially choral singing, is a true indicator of the health of the nation. A people brought up on spiritual song is noble and great.

Dostoevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich (1821-1881)

Russian writer and thinker.

Art is such a need for a person as eating and drinking. The need for beauty and creativity, which embodies it, is inseparable from a person, and without it a person, perhaps, would not want to live in the world.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Great German composer, organist, teacher.\

The purpose of music is to touch hearts.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)

German composer, pianist.

Music is a mediator between the life of the mind and the life of feelings.

Music should strike fire from people's hearts.

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)

German composer, pianist, conductor.

Writing music is not difficult, the hardest thing is crossing out the extra notes.

Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918)

French composer, representative of musical impressionism.

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

Music lovers and connoisseurs are not born, but become... To love music, you must first listen to it.Real music is capable of expressing only humane feelings, only advanced humane ideas... We do not know a single piece of music that glorifies anger, hatred, robbery.

N.A. Rimsky - Korsakov (1844-1906)

Russian composer, teacher, conductor, public figure, musical critic; member of the "Mighty Handful".

« Painting gives an image and a thought, and you need to create a mood in your imagination.Poetry words are given by thought, and according to it you need to create an image and mood, andmusic gives a mood, and according to it it is necessary to recreate a thought and an image.”

Georgy Sviridov (1915 – 1998)

Soviet and Russian composer, pianist. People's Artist of the USSR.

“Music heals the soul of people, makes them strong and wise.”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Austrian composer and virtuoso musician.

“Mozart is the youth of music, it is an eternally young spring, bringing to humanity the joy of spring renewal.”(D. Shostakovich)

Georges Bizet (1838 – 1875)

French composer of the Romantic period, author of the famous opera Carmen.

“There are no kinds of music except two - good and bad.”

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Soviet composer, pianist, musical and public figure, doctor of art history, teacher, professor; People's Artist of the USSR.

“Mighty is time, which has nurtured such talent. But the talent that expressed such a time is also powerful. Shostakovich’s work is the musical emblem of the twentieth century.”(T. Khrennikov)

For many centuries, music has lived in the hearts of people, makes us create, gives us inspiration and helps us discover new talents. There are no less brilliant paintings and amazing poems written under the influence of music than there are stars in the sky.

For each of us, music is a piece of the soul, something that cannot be described in words. But there are also those who found suitable letters and created statements that surprisingly clearly reflect the essence of the music. Perhaps some of the thoughts of great minds will coincide with your feelings and emotions?

Statements about the music of great composers

"Music is a popular need."
"Music is a mediator between the life of the mind and the life of feelings."
"Music is a revelation higher than wisdom and philosophy."
"Music should strike fire from people's hearts"(Ludwig van Beethoven).

“Music, even in the most terrible dramatic situations, should always captivate the ear, always remain music.” (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart).

“Real music is always revolutionary, it unites people, worries them, calls them forward.
Real music is capable of expressing only humane feelings, only advanced humane ideas.
Music accompanies a person throughout his life. It is difficult to imagine human life without music. Without the sounds of music, it would be incomplete, deaf, poor... People need all types of music - from the simple tune of a pipe to the sound of a huge symphony orchestra, from a simple popular song to Beethoven's sonatas.
Love and study the great art of music. It will open up to you a whole world of high feelings, passions, thoughts. It will make you spiritually richer. Thanks to music, you will find new strengths in yourself that were previously unknown to you. You will see life in new tones and colors" (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich).

"The purpose of music is to touch hearts" (Johann Sebastian Bach).

“Musical material, that is, melody, harmony and rhythm, is certainly inexhaustible.
Music is a treasury into which every nationality contributes its own, for the common benefit." (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky).

"Music has no fatherland; its fatherland is the whole universe" (Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin).

"Music cannot think, but it can embody thought" (Richard Wilhelm Wagner).

“Music is the noblest, the heartiest, the most soulful, the most charming, the most subtle of all that the human spirit has invented.
Music needs words as little as sculpture." (Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein).

"Music is like a drama. The queen (melody) has more power, but the decision always rests with the king" (Robert Schumann).

Sayings about the music of great philosophers

“Music inspires the whole world, provides the soul with wings, promotes the flight of imagination”(Plato).

"Music ennobles morals.
Music can have a certain effect on the ethical side of the soul." (Aristotle).

"Life would be a mistake without music" (Friedrich Nietzsche).

"Music is the soul's unconscious exercise in arithmetic" (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz) .

“Music encourages us to think eloquently.
Music shows a person the possibilities of greatness that exist in his soul." (Ralph Waldo Emerson).

Statements about the music of great Russian writers

Of the pleasures of life, music is second only to love, But love is also a melody."(Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin).

"Music is the highest art in the world."
"Music is a shorthand of feelings."
“Music makes me forget myself, my true position, it transports me to some other position, not my own” (Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy).

"Music is intelligence embodied in beautiful sounds" (Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev).

“Don’t believe that a person can understand music right away. It’s impossible. You have to get used to it first.
Music has a greater connection with the moral actions of a person than is usually thought."(Vladimir Fedorovich Odoevsky).

"Statements about the music of great foreign writers
Where is the music, it can’t be bad!” (Miguel de Cervantes).

"Music is the poetry of the air.
Oh music! The echo of a distant harmonious world! The sigh of an angel in our soul!" (Jean Paul Richter).

"Music is thinking noise" (Victor Marie Hugo).

"Music drowns out sadness" (William Shakespeare).

“Music for me is like poetry, and of all types of poetry, it is the most deeply exciting.
Music is dear to us because it is the deepest expression of the soul, the harmonious echo of its joys and sorrows.
Music, like rain, drop by drop, seeps into the heart and revives it." (Romain Rolland).

"Music is the only universal language, it does not need to be translated, soul speaks to soul in it"(Berthold Auerbach).

"Music is the universal language of humanity" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).

“Perfect music brings the heart into exactly the same state as one experiences when enjoying the presence of a beloved being, that is, music undoubtedly gives the brightest happiness that is possible on earth.” (Stendhal).

“The field of music is spiritual unrest. The purpose of music is to excite these unrest, and it itself is also inspired by them.” (George Sand).

“Music is the language of the soul and the melody of gentle breezes that vibrate the strings of feelings; it is thin fingers that resurrect on the pages of fantasy memories of hours of true sorrow and despair or of brief moments of true joy and fun.” (Khalil Gibran).

“Nothing evokes the past with such force as music; it achieves more: when it evokes it, it seems as if it itself passes before us, shrouded, like the shadows of those dear to us, in a mysterious and sad veil.” (Germaine de Stael).

“Music, with its melody, takes us to the very edge of eternity and gives us the opportunity to comprehend its greatness within a few minutes.” (Thomas Carlyle).

"Statements about the music of other famous personalities
Music is the true universal human speech." (Carl Julius Weber).

“Music is a powerful source of thought. Without musical education, full mental development is impossible.
Music unites the moral, emotional and aesthetic spheres of a person. Music is the language of feelings" (Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky).

"All art strives to become music" (Walter Horeisho Pater).

“Music is an acoustic composition that arouses in us an appetite for life, just as well-known pharmaceutical compounds arouse an appetite for food.” (Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky).

“Music, just like any other human language, must be inseparable from the people, from the soil of this people, from its historical development.” (Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov).

"Music is not only an ennobling and educational factor. Music is a healer of health"(Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev).

Of course, much more wonderful things have been said about music. May be. Did we miss your favorite quote or do you have something to say yourself? The staff of the “Virtuosi” music school is anxiously awaiting your own statements, and will also be grateful for valuable additions on the topic “Great Minds - About Music”!
Although... “Talking about music is like dancing about architecture,” said American musician David Byrne.

Music- this is intelligence embodied in beautiful sounds. (Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev)

Music- a mediator between the life of the mind and the life of feelings. (Ludwig van Beethoven)

Music- the source of joy for wise people. (Xun Tzu)

Music is a revelation higher than wisdom and philosophy. (Ludwig Beethoven)

Music- the only universal language, it does not need to be translated, soul speaks to soul in it. (Bertold Averbach)

Music- popular need. (Ludwig Beethoven)

The greatness of art is most clearly manifested in Music. (Johann Wolfgang Goethe)

When we perceive with the ear rhythm And melody, ours is changing spiritual mood. (Aristotle)

Music is a type of art that embodies ideological and emotional content in sound artistic images.

Music is an art whose subject is sound that changes over time.

Music there is as little need for words as sculpture. (Anton Rubinstein)

Music is a part of our life, a part of every person. In one musical direction or another, he seeks self-expression and strives for self-knowledge. Music helps you have fun, it can also immerse you in thought and helps you better understand your inner world. We offer you an interesting selection of quotes, aphorisms and sayings about music that will help you understand how important music is in life.

Music is immortal. Anyone who thinks that listening to old songs is not fashionable not only understands nothing about music, but also understands nothing about life. The music that performers give from the heart is eternal. Proof of this is the work of legendary groups and performers. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine published the article "Immortals: The 50 Greatest Artists of All Time." This list includes such legendary names as the Beatles, Elvis Presley, Bob Marley, Nirvana, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Elton John, Quinn, Tina Turner and others. As for the Russian stage, it also has its own luminaries. Among them are Alla Pugacheva, Philip Kirkorov, Valery Leontyev, the group Tender May, etc.

There are many musical styles and trends, but love for music should always start with the classics. Among the most famous composers who created brilliant works, it is worth mentioning such names as L. Beethoven, A. Mozart, J. Bach, J. Strauss, P. Tchaikovsky, F. Schubert.

Music drowns out sadness (W. Shakespeare).

But sad music can only enhance it.

Music is the universal language of humanity (Longfellow).

We can listen to the music of other peoples without needing translation.

The greatness of art is most clearly manifested in music (Goethe).

Neither painting nor sculpture leaves as many memories as music.

Life would be a mistake without music (F. Nietzsche).

Maybe without music there would be no life - people would die of boredom.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture (D. Byrne).

You need to listen to music, but your soul will talk about it.

Music is a powerful source of thought. Without musical education, full mental development is impossible. (V. Sukhomlinsky).

Musical education should begin from birth.

Music cannot think, but it can embody thought (R. Wagner).

Music with thoughts is not necessarily music and words; sometimes a melody without words embodies much more thoughts than with them.

Aphorisms

Music always plays for victory, even when it is sad.

Rasadness and sadness go hand in hand with music...

Music is not a hobby for me, or even a passion. Music is me.

Everyone finds their reflection in music.

Music is a natural sedative.

No sedative can calm you down like music.

Music is a shorthand for feelings.

Music reflects all feelings, emotions and achievements.

Music is the poetry of the air.

Notes can be written down on paper, but the music itself can only float in the air and live in the hearts.

Living without music is like breathing without air.

He who does not love music does not live.

Music is something that makes it worth having ears at all.

This is an art that cannot be comprehended with the eyes.

Quotes from great people and musicians

Classical music is the basis of a civilized society. And a sign of a refined mind (Henry Morgan).

Musical taste is, first of all, a love for the classics.

Music is a mediator between the life of the mind and the life of feelings. Music is a revelation higher than wisdom and philosophy (L. Beethoven).

Philosophy is different for everyone, but music is the same for everyone.

Music is the best consolation for a sad person (M. Luther).

Oddly enough, when we feel bad, we turn on sad music, but it makes us happier.

Music, like rain, seeps into the heart drop by drop and revives it. (R. Rolland).

Music can heal wounds.

The purpose of music is to touch hearts (I. Bach).

And also to penetrate into the soul...

Music rules autocratically and makes you forget about everything else (W. Mozart).

She leaves a mark on the soul that cannot be erased.

Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between them (W. Mozart).

About music and soul

Music is not Bach or Beethoven, but a can opener for opening the soul.

No one and nothing can penetrate the soul like music.

Music brings peoples and nationalities together and breaks down language barriers.

A genius, opening the lid of a piano, opens the souls wide open to everyone!

And only the insensitive and soulless remain indifferent to music.

Only the greatest art - music - can touch the depths of the soul.

Music not only excites the blood, but also touches the soul to the quick.

Music is the only universal language, it does not need to be translated, soul speaks to soul.

When literature is translated, its meaning and original essence are lost, but music always retains its authenticity.

Music washes away the dust of everyday life from the soul.

Music heals and cleanses a person.

Music alone is a world language and does not need translation, because it speaks to the soul.

The soul is able to understand music without any translators.

About rock music

When Tsoi died, everyone became rockers. Michael Jackson died as a pop singer. Be healthy, Elton John!

Musicians die, but music remains forever alive.

Rock is the ability to bring freedom into the world, into the minds of people.

If you want to feel freedom, go to a rock concert.

Rock is a movement, it is a story, it is truth and freedom, it is a force that can move mountains and unite common efforts. There is no place for hypocrisy, window dressing, parody, or lies in rock. Rock is not just music. Rock music is life.

Listening to rock makes you want to live and create, and not sit and be inactive.

Rock should be hard enough for guys and sweet enough for girls. This way everyone will be happy and it will be much more fun.