The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

19.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

21.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

22.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

23.

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.

Cosby, Bill

24.

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

Sousa, John Philip

25.

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

26.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

29.

Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

30.

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

31.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

33.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

34.

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

35.

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

36.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

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

Martin Luther

38.

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

39.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

41.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

42.

The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

43.

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

44.

I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

45.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

46.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.