Music Quotes

96 quotations about Music

If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Music should never be harmless.

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

Music is the key to the female heart.

Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?

If music be the food of love; play on.

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

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

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