Music Quotes

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.

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.