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.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour!

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

When griping grief the heart doth wound,
and doleful dumps the mind opresses,
then music, with her silver sound,
with speedy help doth lend redress.

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

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

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers.

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

When real music comes to me - the music of the speres, the music that surpasseth understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium...those moments are what I live for.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honoured to be chosen from heaven to be invincible.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; no, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.