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Music is the highest art in the world: a selection of quotes and aphorisms about music.

Music is the highest art in the world: a selection of quotes and aphorisms about music.

07.03.2019

COMPOSERS' STATEMENTS ABOUT MELODIES Here one can cite the statements of Russian classical composers about melody, such as the following: “Melody,” Rachmaninov said, “is ... the main basis of music, since a perfect melody implies and brings to life its own harmonic design.” “The main charm is in the melody,” wrote Serov, “the main charm of the art of sounds, without it everything is pale, colorless, dead, despite the most forced harmonic combinations, for all the wonders of counterpoint and orchestration.” It must be emphasized that the melody is of great importance in music of each nation, that in the melody, first of all, the historically established national traits, the national identity of music. O. Balzac wrote: "Melody in music is the same as the image and feeling in poetry ... That is why all peoples had national motives before harmony." Beautiful melodies of Beethoven's symphonies, songs of Schubert and Schumann, operas by Bizet, Verdi, Rossini, Smetana and many other wonderful masters foreign classics, which have their origin in folk art, are widespread in all countries and are favorite melodies Soviet people. However, one should point out the special place occupied by the melody in Russian music. Russian folk song and Russian classical music, grown on the soil folk art, deeply melodious in essence, vocal in their essence. “Nowhere has a folk song played and does not play such a role as in our city, nowhere has it been preserved in such richness, strength and diversity as in our country. This gave a special warehouse and physiognomy to Russian music and led it to its own special tasks, ”wrote V. Stasov. “You can guess a Russian old folk song among thousands of melodies,” V. Odoevsky pointed out. The melody of Russian folk songs sounds in the works of Russian classical composers, attracting and winning the hearts of millions of people. Melodies of arias by Ivan Susanin, Ruslan and "Kamarinskaya" Glinka, arias of Igor and Boris Godunov, Lensky and Onegin, Herman and Lisa, Marfa and Sadko organically entered our Soviet reality; romances by Glinka and Dargomyzhsky, Tchaikovsky's symphonies and Rachmaninov's concertos. Russian folk song, its innermost features are also reflected in the best works of Soviet composers. It is impossible to list not only works, but even only the names of composers whose work reveals organic links with Russian songwriting, with the traditions of Russian music. classical music. Let us name for example the opera "War and Peace", the cantata "Alexander Nevsky" by S. Prokofiev, the opera "Katerina Izmailova" by D. Shostakovich, "Virineya" by S. Slonimsky, vocal cycles G. Sviridova.

STATEMENTS ABOUT MUSIC

Aphorisms of foreign composers:

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

Above all, love freedom

And even at the royal throne

Do not renounce the truth. (Ludwig van Beethoven)

To describe is the business of painting, poetry can also consider itself happy in this respect compared to music, its area is not so limited as mine. But on the other hand, mine extends much further into other realms, and my possessions are not so easily encroached upon. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Music is a higher revelation than wisdom and philosophy. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Music is a people's need. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
For a person with talent and love for work, there are no barriers. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
The highest distinction of man is perseverance in overcoming the most cruel obstacles. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
... anyone who acts morally and nobly can, by virtue of this very thing, 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 such outposts have yet been erected that would say to the emerging talent: so far and no further. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
write music not difficult, the hardest thing is to cross out extra notes. (Johannes Brahms )
Music cannot think, but it can embody a thought. ( Richard Wagner)
Melody is the only form of music; without melody, music is unthinkable, and music and melody are inseparable. ( Richard Wagner)
One has only to want, and there will be art! ( Richard Wagner)
A mistake in artistic genre opera was that the means of expression (music) was made the end, and the end 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 with him common goal, and they can only achieve it if both recognize it. This goal is a beautiful and strong man; let the Revolution give him Strength, Art - Beauty. ( Richard Wagner)
...out of life standing art must die... 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 shield us from life. After all, everything we live by: our sufferings, our joys - all this should sound in full voice in music. We in it, as in life, must be sincere. ( Giuseppe Verdi)
Melody, harmony, recitation, passionate singing, orchestral effects and colors are nothing but means. ( Giuseppe Verdi)
Create good music with these tools. ( Giuseppe Verdi)
Good instrumentation does not consist in variety and extraordinary effects - it is good. when expressing something. ( Giuseppe Verdi)
The beauty of music is in the melody. ( Joseph Haydn)
I would be very sorry. if my music only entertained my listeners: I aspired to make them better. (Georg Friedrich Handel)
Simplicity, truth and naturalness - these 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 capable of thinking. ( Charles Gounod)
I managed to see big light, but everywhere and always I remained what I was, a simple Czech musician. ( Antonin Dvorak)
Music is the arithmetic of sounds, just as optics is the geometry of light. ( Claude Debussy)
Artistic music grows out of folk music. It is its close continuation, an elegant advanced degree. ( Zoltan Kodaly)
Music is the language of the environment around us invisible world and, like everything mysterious, deeply disturbs my whole being. ( Ljubica Marich)
Music dominates 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, must 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 is her universe. ( Fryderyk Chopin)
The expression of thoughts through tones, the discovery of feelings through these tones, the art of expressing oneself in tones - there is music! ( Fryderyk Chopin)
Music is like drama. The queen (melody) has more power, but the decision is always with the king. ( Robert Schumann)
Who does not 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, life individual person and the life of peoples national character country and its nature! ( Robert Schumann)
For me, the poetic program is nothing more than a creative occasion both for creating an expressive form and for musical development my feelings, and not just a musical description of famous life events. ( Richard Strauss)
I draw... I draw a sonata... What a joy it is to work hard, furiously, without respite, 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 prominent foreign figures:

MUSIC IS THE GREATEST POWER. SHE CAN MAKE A MAN LOVE AND HATE, FORGIVE AND KILL.From the teachings of ancient Greek philosophers)
When we perceive with the ear rhythm and melody our mental state changes. (Aristotle )
Music washes away the dust from the soul Everyday life. (Berthold Averbakh )
Music alone is the language of the world and does not need translation, for the soul speaks. (Berthold Averbakh )
Music is the only world language, it does not need to be translated, soul speaks to soul in it. ( Averbakh)
We don't listen to music, but music listens to us. ( Theodor Adorno)
What is music but sounds that change and move in time. (Leonard Bernstein)
What is music ? It occupies a place between thought and appearance; like a pre-dawn mediator, she stands between spirit and matter; related to both, it is different from them; this is a spirit in need of measured time; is matter that does without space ( Heinrich Heine)
Music - the last word art... ( Heinrich Heine)
The greatness of art is most clearly seen in music. ( Johann Wolfgang Goethe )
Music is the highest of the arts.(Johann Wolfgang Goethe )
Music "pleasant to the ear" is like a book "pleasant to look at". ( Joseph Hoffman)
The secret of music is what it finds inexhaustible source where speech stops. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann)
Of all the noises known to man, music is the most expensive noise. ( Theophile Gauthier)
write about music It's like dancing about architecture. ( Frank Zappa)
Music with its melody brings us to the very edge of eternity and gives us the opportunity for a few minutes to comprehend its greatness ( 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 warehouse of the nation. ( Van Cliburn)
Music is the art of sadness and joy for no reason. (Tadeusz Kotarbinski)
There is no sweeter music in the world than the sound of your favorite voice. ( Jean de La Bruyère)
Music is the universal language of mankind. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Music is the best solace 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 the imagination. ( Plato)
...the greatest of the wonders of music that affects only movement is its ability to convey to them even the image of peace. Sleep, the stillness of the night, solitude and even stillness are among the musical pictures. Painting, which does not have such power, is not able to imitate music in the way that the latter imitates it ... ( Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Expressiveness is a quality by which a musician feels and conveys with force all the ideas that he must convey, and all those feelings that he must express ... ( Jean Jacques Rousseau)
The field of music is spiritual unrest. The purpose of music is to excite these emotional disturbances, and she herself is also inspired by them. ( George Sand)
Music revives in us the consciousness of our mental faculties; its sounds inspire us with the noblest efforts. (Anne-Louise Germaine de Stael)
Nothing evokes the past with such force as music; she achieves more: when she invokes it, it seems as if it itself passes before us, shrouded, like the shadows of those who are dear to us, with a mysterious and sad veil. (Anne-Louise Germaine de Stael)
... Music, when it is perfect, undoubtedly gives the brightest happiness. ( Stendhal)
Music was perhaps my strongest and most costly passion ... I would have walked hundreds of leagues, I would have agreed 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 beauty and inspiration. (Leopold Stokowski)
Music - source of joy wise people. ( Xun Tzu)
Can't grow complete person without cultivating in him a sense of beauty. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Music encourages us to think eloquently. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Aphorisms of Russian composers:

The point of harmony is to draw those features that are not and cannot be in the melody. (Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka)
Avoid singing in the company of bad amateurs, so you will either be spoiled with excessive praise, which is always harmful, or you will be made remarks from which you will be jarred. In the company of real musicians, sing boldly, because from them, except for useful instructions, you will not hear anything else. (Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka)
It is possible to combine the requirements of art with the requirements of the age and, taking advantage of the improvement of instruments and performance, write plays that are equally reportable to connoisseurs and ordinary 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 baggage, unlike ordinary baggage, has an amazing property: the larger it is, the easier it is for a person to follow the paths 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 educating the clergy of children and youth. (Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky)
Art is perhaps the most amazing miracle of all miracles. created by mankind throughout the history of its existence, and feeling, thought and beauty are inextricably linked in this miracle. Why deceive people, why impoverish their spiritual world by presenting 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 spiritual moods. ( Caesar Cui)
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. (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 a person is taken as the goal!(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
The demands of art from the contemporary artist are so enormous that they can engulf the whole person.(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
Art is a means of conversation with people, not a goal... Whatever speech I hear, no matter who speaks (the main thing is whatever they say), my brain is already working musical presentation such speech...(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
I want to make people: I sleep and see, I eat and think about it, I drink - it seems to me, it is one whole, big, untinted and without leaf. And what a terrible (truly) wealth of folk speech. What an inexhaustible ore for the grip of everything real - the life of the Russian people!(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
In the human masses, as in an individual, there are always the finest features that elude the grasp, features that have not yet been touched by anyone: to notice and study them in reading, in observation, by conjecture, to study with all their guts and feed humanity with them, as a healthy dish, which I have not tried yet - that's the task! Delight and pure delight!(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
I have put a cross on myself, and with my head up, I will cheerfully and cheerfully go against everyone towards a bright, strong, righteous goal, towards real art, loving a person, living by his joy, his grief and suffering.(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
Life, wherever it affects; the truth, no matter how salty; bold, sincere speech to people point-blank, that's my leaven, that's what I want and that's what I would be afraid to miss.(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
To the new musical labor, wide musical work calls life; further, even further on the good path, with great zeal to new shores of yet boundless art! To search for these shores, to search tirelessly, without fear and embarrassment, and to stand with a firm foot on the promised land - this is a great, fascinating task!(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
The time for leisure writing is over. Give your whole self to people - that's what is needed in art 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 her. First of all, he must be a citizen in his art, sing of human life and lead a person to a brighter future. Such, from my point of view, is the unshakable code of art. (Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev)
Now is not the time 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 inquiringly. Composers, pay attention to this moment; if you push these crowds away, they will go to jazz or to where "Marusya has gone and is lying in the dead." if you keep them, you will get an audience that has not been anywhere and at any time, but it does not follow from this that you need to adapt to this audience. Pampering has an element of insincerity in it, and nothing good has ever come out of patching up. The masses want great music, big events, Great love, cheerful dances. They understand a lot more than some composers think and they want to improve. (Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev)
Music must first of all be loved; should 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)
Most high quality of any art is its sincerity! (Sergei Vasilyevich Rahmaninov)
Music is the noblest, most cordial, most sincere, most charming, most subtle of all that the human spirit has invented! (Anton Grigorievich Rubinshtein)

Fulfillment is the second creation musical composition. (Anton Grigorievich Rubinshtein)

You can talk a lot and beautifully, without saying anything wonderful; In music it will be an unusual and beautiful instrumentation of insignificant thoughts, in painting it will be a large boarded-up frame for a small, insignificant picture. (Anton Grigorievich Rubinshtein)
An artist should not be born into wealth. Worries about his daily bread are even useful to him at first: they add drama to his work. (Anton Grigorievich Rubinshtein)
Thinkers and scientists keep their heads down and for the most part forward; artists and poets keep their heads thrown back and usually look up. (Anton Grigorievich Rubinshtein)
The nationality of the country in which the writer was born and brought up will always be visible in his writings, even if he lives in a foreign country and writes in a foreign language. (Anton Grigorievich Rubinshtein)
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 Rubinshtein)
What a man can't do if he wants to! He must be able to make the impossible possible. I choose this as my motto! (Anton Grigorievich Rubinshtein)
Music is the noblest, most cordial, most sincere, most charming, most subtle of all that the human spirit has invented. (Anton Grigorievich Rubinshtein)
The main and integral features of the new musical art are modernity and simplicity. (Georgy Vasilievich Sviridov)
Real art, apart from purely aesthetic pleasure, pleasure and beauty (and great art brings up the feeling real beauty), brings enormous benefits: it educates a person! (Georgy Vasilievich Sviridov)
O life, O 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 don't love only despair). (Alexander Nikolaevich Skryabin)

It is impossible to fully explain creativity in words. everything is my creation. 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 Skryabin)
We must not forget that only that which is rooted among the people is lasting. (Sergei Ivanovich Taneev)
I personally have great confidence in musical ability Russian people. We must take care that the dormant creative forces of our people break through and manifest themselves in creations that stand at the level of those immortal folk melodies that constitute unattainable samples for us, learned musicians. (Sergei Ivanovich Taneev)
Glory makes people feel that there is power in them, in themselves, and there is nothing more pleasant than to feel power in yourself. (Sergei Ivanovich Taneev)
Only by mastering the experience of the great musicians of the past, by developing realistic traditions, is it possible to create works worthy in their content and their level of our era. (Tikhon Nikolaevich Khrennikov)
Songness is, I think, that melodic principle that should be present in every work of any composer, acquiring in any genre of music its own specific, personality traits. (Tikhon Nikolaevich Khrennikov)
beauty in musicconsists not in a heap of effects and harmonic curiosities, but in simplicity and naturalness. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Music there is a treasury into which every nationality contributes its own, for the common good. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Only that music can touch, shock and hurt, which poured out from the depths of the soul excited by inspiration. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
I wish with all the strength of my soul that my music spread, that the number of people who love it, find consolation and support in it, increases. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
I grew up in the wilderness, from childhood, the earliest, imbued inexplicable beauty 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 the most precious example of folk art. Beauty in music does not lie in a heap of effects and harmonic curiosities, but in simplicity and naturalness. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
There is dissonance greatest power music. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Inspiration is such a 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 endowed with the seal of a genius does not create anything not only great, but also average, if he does not work hellishly ... (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Everyone in his own way serves the common good - and yet art is, in my opinion, a necessary need for humanity. Outside my musical sphere, I am incapable of serving for the good of my neighbor. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
That which is foreign human heart, can not be a source of musical inspiration! (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Love and learn great art music . It will open to you a whole world of high feelings, passions, thoughts. It will make you spiritually richer. Thanks to music, you will find new powers unknown to you before. You will see life in new tones and colors. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )
lovers and connoisseurs music are not born, but become... To fall in love with music, one must first of all listen to it. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )
Melody - this is a thought, this is a movement, this is a soul piece of music. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )
Music accompanies a person throughout his life... It is difficult to imagine a person's life without music. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )
Without the sounds of music, it would be incomplete, deaf, poor. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )
People need all kinds of music - from the simple tune of a flute 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 so are its possibilities in the future. 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 progressive humane ideas... We do not know of a single piece of music that glorifies malice, 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, be deeply rooted in life, which sees its vocation in serving the great creator of history - the people. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )

Aphorisms of prominent Russian figures:

Music - live speech, sensitively reflecting reality, like verbal speech. (Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev)
...music becomes a unity of content-form in the composer's creation...as the embodiment of the thought-idea intoned by him. (Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev)
...melody has been 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 millions of hearts - from mass songs to operas, cantatas and symphonies as high intellectual generalizations. This is where the ideas and forms that bring out these ideas should be directed. We are not talking about cheap rusticity for "uncomprehending" and supposedly lagging behind listeners, but about majestic simplicity, always understandable to people who sincerely crave excitement from native art, and always inherent in the generally 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 beyond life. ( Pavel Vezhinov)
The role of music in shaping the human personality is truly invaluable. Possessing the ability to touch the innermost strings of the soul, to awaken bright, noble impulses in a person, to embrace the masses in 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 Goldenweiser)
Only the greatest art - music - able to touch the depths of the soul. (Maksim Gorky )
I don’t know of any other art that can be so infinitely trusted as music ... even literature, which has become soybean for more than 30 years desired profession and subjugating my whole existence, even the wisest book of a great writer or the most exciting poems of the best poets, no matter how passionately I love them, do not convince me 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)
Happy music makes even happier, 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 open up in these sounds for sensitive people.(Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky)
I don't know if there is even one great musician, which could be said to be outdated. The simplest song coming from the depths of millennia is alive. (Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky)
Music is a field in which human art became immeasurably higher than nature. (Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov)
Music is more connected with moral deeds person than is commonly thought. (Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky)
Don't believe that a person can understand music right away. This is impossible. You have to get used to it first. (Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky)
From the pleasures of life

Music yields to one love,

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

I have always loved music. If I didn't have to listen to it for a long time, I would miss it. (Ilya Efimovich Repin)
O music! Echo of a distant harmonious world! Sigh of an angel in our soul! ( Jean Paul Richter)
Art is inexhaustible, like life. And nothing allows us to feel it better than inexhaustible music. than the ocean of music that fills the ages. ( Romain Rolland)
Music is a higher revelation than wisdom. ( Romain Rolland)
Music is dear to us because it is the deepest expression of the soul, the harmonic echo of its joys and sorrows. ( Romain Rolland)
Music, like rain, seeps into the heart drop by drop and enlivens it. ( Romain Rolland)
You can't live without music. This, in my opinion, is the strongest, most powerful art that 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; it is the realm of feelings and moods; it is the life of the soul expressed in sounds. (Alexander Nikolaevich Serov)
Nowhere has the 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 it is with us. This gave a special warehouse 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, should be inseparable from the people, from the soil of this people, from its historical development. (Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov)
Music, melody, beauty musical sounds- 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, labor. Thanks to music, a person awakens ideas about the sublime, majestic, beautiful 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 Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinsky)
Music unites the moral, emotional and aesthetic spheres of a person. Music is the language of feelings. (Vasily Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinsky)
Genius, opening the lid of the 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 left... But his piano plays in the shower! (Leonid Semenovich Sukhorukov)
The higher the good note, the more refined its harmony should be. (Leonid Semenovich Sukhorukov)
Music is shorthand for feelingsLev Nikolayevich Tolstoy )
Music is the mind embodied in beautiful sounds. (Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev)
Melody is music, the main basis of all music... (Anton Pavlovich Chekhov)
Great composers have always and above all paid attention to the melody as leading start in music. Melody is music, the main foundation of all music, since perfect melody implies and brings to life its harmonious arrangement. (Anton Pavlovich Chekhov)

For many centuries, music lives in the hearts of people, makes us create, gives inspiration and helps us discover new talents. ingenious paintings and amazing poems written under the influence of music - no less than the 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 those who have found suitable letters and created statements that capture the essence of music with amazing clarity. Perhaps some of the thoughts of great minds will coincide with your feelings and emotions?

Sayings about the music of great composers

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

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

"Real music is always revolutionary, it unites people, disturbs them, calls them forward.
Real music is capable of expressing only humane feelings, only progressive humane ideas.
Music accompanies a person throughout life. It is difficult to imagine human life without music. Without the sounds of music, it would be incomplete, deaf, poor... People need all kinds of music - from the simple tune of a flute 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 to you a whole world of high feelings, passions, thoughts. It will make you spiritually richer. Thanks to music, you will find new powers unknown to you before. You will see life in new colors 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 good. (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, most cordial, most sincere, most charming, 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 is always 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 the imagination"(Plato).

"Music ennobles morals.
Music is capable of exerting a certain influence on the ethical side of the soul. (Aristotle).

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

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

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

Sayings about the music of great Russian writers

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

"Music is the highest art in the world."
"Music is shorthand for feelings."
"Music makes me forget myself, my true position, it takes me to some other, not my position" (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 more to do with the moral actions of a person than is usually thought.(Vladimir Fedorovich Odoevsky).

"Sayings about the music of great foreign writers
Where there is music, it can't be bad!" (Miguel de Cervantes).

"Music is the poetry of the air.
O music! 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 the same poetry, and of all kinds of poetry, it is the most captivating.
Music is dear to us because it is the deepest expression of the soul, the harmonic echo of its joys and sorrows.
Music, like rain, drop by drop seeps into the heart and enlivens it" (Romain Rolland).

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

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

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

"The field of music is emotional unrest. The purpose of music is to excite these unrest, and she herself 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 resurrecting in the pages of fantasy memories of hours of genuine 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 who are dear to us, with a mysterious and sad cover" (Germaine de Stael).

"Music with its melody brings us to the very edge of eternity and gives us the opportunity for a few minutes to comprehend its greatness" (Thomas Carlyle).

"Sayings 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-fledged 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 Horace Pater).

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

"Music, like any other human language, must be inseparable from the people, from the soil of this people, with its historical development" (Vladimir Vasilyevich Stasov).

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

Of course, much more beautiful things have been said about music. May be. Did we miss your favorite quote or do you have something to say yourself? team music school"Virtuosi" is looking forward to your own statements with trepidation, 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 is the mind embodied in beautiful sounds. (Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev)

Music mediator between the life of the mind and the life of the senses. (Ludwig van Beethoven)

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

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

Music- the only world language, it does not need to be translated, the soul speaks to the soul in it. (Berthold Averbakh)

Music- the need of the people. (Ludwig Beethoven)

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

When we perceive with the ear rhythm And melody, we change mental mood. (Aristotle)

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

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

Music needs words as little as sculpture. (Anton Rubinstein)

Music is a part of our life, a part of every person. In one way or another musical direction, he seeks self-expression and strives for self-knowledge. Music helps to have fun, it can also make you think and help you get to know your inner world. We are offering to you interesting selection quotes, aphorisms and sayings about music that will help you understand how important music is in life.

Music is immortal. Whoever believes that listening to old songs is not fashionable, he not only understands nothing in music, he does not understand anything in life either. The music that performers give from the heart is eternal. Creativity is proof of this. legendary bands and performers. In 2004 the magazine Rolling stone published the article "Immortals: 50 the greatest performers 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 Leontiev, group Tender May and etc.

There are many musical styles and trends, but the love of 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 strengthen it.

Music is the universal language of mankind (Longfellow).

We can listen to the music of other peoples without the need for 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 longing.

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

Music needs to be listened to, and the 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 at 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 where more thoughts than with them.

Aphorisms

Music always plays to win, even when it's sad.

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

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

Everyone finds their reflection in music.

Music is a natural sedative.

No sedative will soothe you like music.

Music is shorthand for feelings.

Music reflects all feelings, emotions and achievements.

Music is the poetry of the air.

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

Living without music is like breathing without air.

Who does not love music, he does not live.

Music is something worth having ears for.

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

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

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

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

Oddly enough, but when we feel bad, we turn on sad music, but it makes it more fun.

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 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 never fades.

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

About music and soul

Music is not Bach, and not 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, destroys the language barrier.

Genius, opening the lid of the 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 for the living.

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

Literature is translated - meaning and original essence are lost, and 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 the language of the world and does not need translation, for it speaks to the soul.

The soul is able to understand music without any translators.

About rock music

When Choi died, everyone became rockers. Died MichaelJackson - popovikami. Cheers, Elton John!

Musicians die, 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 movement, it is history, it is truth and freedom, it is a force that can move mountains and unite common efforts. In rock there is no place for hypocrisy, window dressing, parody, lies. Rock is not just music. Rock music is life.

Listening to rock, you want to live and create, and not sit and do nothing.

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

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

ancient greek philosopher a student of Plato. Educator 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 exerting a certain influence on the ethical side of the soul, and since music has such properties, then obviously it should be included in the number of subjects for the education of young people.

Bart Carl (1886-1968)

Swiss theologian*. As a civil servant in Germany, he refused to take the oath of allegiance to Hitler. 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.

* Theologian - a person who studies and expounds the doctrine of God, writes essays about it.

** Dogmatics - a section of theology, which sets out the basic rules of any religion.

Belinsky Vissarion Grigorievich (1811-1848)

Russian writer and critic.

In children from the very early years a sense of elegance must be developed as one of the first 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, raised the question of educating adolescents in labor skills.

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

Gogol Nikolai Vasilyevich (1809-1852)

Great Russian writer.

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

Dvorak Antonin (1841-1904)

Czech composer, conductor.

The orchestra is the people, and the quartet is the family.

Derzhavin Gavriil Romanovich (1743 - 1816)

Russian poet. Held the highest government positions.

"... music represents invisible objects ... depicts one feeling of the heart and cannot depict anything bodily."

Dickens Charles (1812-1970)

English writer.

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

Doga Evgeniy Dmitrievich

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

I often look with regret at people who do not understand where to find the source good condition spirit and in general Have a good mood. Indeed, in music, in literature, in general in art there is so much energy, so much still unexplored sensations, emotions, strengths, possibilities.

Kabalevsky Dmitry Borisovich (1904-1987)

Composer, teacher, educator, People's Artist of the USSR. Author of many works. Developed a system of musical education in a secondary school.

Any musical image is an image of a person. In every musical image there is a piece of life.

Karamzin Nikolai Mikhailovich (1766-1826)

Russian writer, historian. Founder of the History of the Russian State.

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

Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm (1649-1716)

Outstanding German mathematician, diplomat and philosopher.

Nothing is so pleasing to the senses as consonance in music, and to the mind the consonance of nature, of which the former is only a small example. Music is an imitation of the universal harmony that God put into the world.

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 largest philosopher of ancient Greece, the founder of his own philosophical school - the Academy, which lasted 1000 years. The founder of the idealistic trend in philosophy. Was an Olympic wrestling champion.

Music inspires the whole world, provides the soul with wings, promotes the flight of the imagination; music gives life and fun 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 that invincible power possessed by inspired art.

The greatest of the wonders of music that affects only movement is its ability to convey to them even the image of rest. Sleep, silence at night, solitude and even silence belong to the number of 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 being on earth

So tough, tough, so damn evil

Whatever I could not even for one hour

In it, the music to make a revolution.

Who does not carry music in himself,

Who is cold to charming harmony

He can be a traitor, a liar,

Soul thief.

His movements

Dark as night and like Erebus * black is his affection.

Do not trust such a person.

Lomonosov Mikhail Vasilyevich (1711-1765)

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

Sweet sounds of native song and music in the live human soul the mind awakens and high feelings educate.

Popov Viktor Sergeevich (1934-2008)

Founder, artistic director And chief conductor Great 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 Vasilyevich (1890-1980)

Choir 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 the most effective ways bring people to high musical culture lies through playing music in the choir.

Struve Georgy Alexandrovich (1932-2004)

Composer, choirmaster, educator. Creator of the system of mass education 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, listen to each other, a society in which individuality is not suppressed, but is fully revealed.

…singing, especially choral, joint singing is a true indicator of the nation's health. The people brought up on a spiritualized song are noble and great.

Dostoevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich (1821-1881)

Russian writer and thinker.

Art is such a need for a person as to eat and drink. The need for beauty and creativity, embodying 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 the mediator between the life of the mind and the life of the senses.

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 to cross out extra notes.

Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)

French composer, a representative of musical impressionism.

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

Lovers and connoisseurs of music are not born, but become ... To fall in love with music, you must first of all listen to it.Real music is capable of expressing only humane feelings, only progressive humane ideas... We do not know of a single piece of music that glorifies malice, 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 gives a thought, and on it you need to create an image and mood, andmusic gives a mood, and it is necessary to recreate a thought and an image according to it.

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 mankind the joy of spring renewal.”(D. Shostakovich)

Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875)

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

"There are no kinds of music, except for 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.

“Mightier is the time that nurtured such a talent. But the talent that expressed such a time is also powerful. Shostakovich's work is the musical emblem of the 20th century.(T. Khrennikov)