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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
- Billings, Josh
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Best Quotes about Music

1.
The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
Thoreau, Henry David

2.
Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.
Herschel, Sir John

3.
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Carlyle, Thomas

4.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley

5.
I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
Bacall, Lauren

6.
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.
Szell, George

7.
If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
Wilde, Oscar

8.
Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
Pepys, Samuel

9.
If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.
William Shakespeare

10.
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Coward, Noel

11.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Sir Edward Appleton

12.
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
Martin Luther

13.
Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Wilde, Oscar

14.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato

15.
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
Martin Luther

16.
Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.
Haweis, H. R.

17.
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.
Levi-Strauss, Claude

18.
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Zappa, Frank

19.
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
Genet, Jean

20.
A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.
Newman, Ernest

21.
Good music is very close to primitive language.
Diderot, Denis

22.
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
Schumann, Robert

23.
People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.
Schumann, Robert

24.
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!
William Shakespeare

25.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Einstein, Albert

26.
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Edgar Wilson Nye

27.
Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.
Attali, Jacques

28.
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
Green, Benny

29.
There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.
Pound, Ezra

30.
If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.
Proverb, Zimbabwe

31.
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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

32.
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
Pierre Beaumarchais

33.
I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.
Lennon, John

34.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Tolstoy, Count Leo

35.
I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.
Brown, James

36.
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
Addison, Joseph

37.
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.
Jean Baptiste Montegut

38.
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.
Pound, Ezra

39.
But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

40.
To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?
William Shakespeare

41.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
Johnson, James Weldon

42.
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.
George Eliot

43.
Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
Wordsworth, William

44.
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
G. K. Chesterton

46.
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
George Bernard Shaw

47.
Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.
Mascagni, Pietro

48.
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
Dan Rather

49.
Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.
Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

50.
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
Thomas, Lewis


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