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