Music Quotes

96 quotations about Music
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
Joseph Addison · Music
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Joseph Addison · Music
What we play is life.
Louis Armstrong · Music
There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.
Louis Armstrong · Music
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
W. H. Auden · Music
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach · Music
I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
Lauren Bacall · Music
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
Sir Thomas Beecham · Music
A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
Sir Thomas Beecham · Music
She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
Sir Max Beerbohm · Music
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Ludwig Van Beethoven · Music
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Ludwig Van Beethoven · Music
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
Ludwig Van Beethoven · Music
Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
Josh Billings · Music
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Christian Nevell Bovee · Music
I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.
James Brown · Music
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle · Music
One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
Thomas Carlyle · Music
Song is the heroics of speech.
Thomas Carlyle · Music
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
Miguel De Cervantes · Music
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
E. M. Cioran · Music
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve · Music
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
Pat Conroy · Music
Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
Alistair Cooke · Music
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Noel Coward · Music

Authors on Music

Joseph Addison Louis Armstrong W. H. Auden Berthold Auerbach Lauren Bacall Sir Thomas Beecham Sir Max Beerbohm Ludwig Van Beethoven Josh Billings Christian Nevell Bovee James Brown Thomas Carlyle Miguel De Cervantes E. M. Cioran William Congreve Pat Conroy Alistair Cooke Noel Coward Miles Davis Denis Diderot