Music Quotes

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.