Listed below are quotes about music that may give your
students something to thing about.
There are many ways to use quotes: as journal starters, as discussion
starters, or on the board for students to contemplate throughout the day. Use
the following quotes in anyway which works for your students. (These quotes
were found in the book Music, A Book of Quotations, edited by Herb
Galewitz)
Where words fail, music speaks. Hans Christian Anderson
It’s easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do
is touch the right key at the right time, and the instrument will play itself.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Is there a heart that music cannot melt? James
Beattie
Music … can name the unnamable and communicate the
unknowable.
Leonard
Bernstein
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. Pat Conroy
You are the music while the music lasts. T.S. Eliot
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is
impossible to be silent. Victor Hugo
Music is the medicine of the mind. John Logan
Music is to the mind as air is to the body. Plato
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow