Famous Music Quote

Famous Music Quote

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo

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

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

If music be the food of love, play on.
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
John Keats

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
Martin Luther

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.
Bill Cosby

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
Plato

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

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Red Auerbach

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
Miles Davis

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

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
Henry Giles

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
Edward Gardner

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

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.
Oliver Herford

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

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Bill Nye

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."
Ezra Pound

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
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