Music Quotes

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze
By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet
Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods;
Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage,
But music for the time doth change his nature.
The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Only sick music makes money today.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.