Music Quotes

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Hell is full of musical amateurs."
-George Bernard Shaw

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

"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays."
-Oscar Wilde

"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 King Jr.

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

"Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit."
-Herbert Spencer

"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; 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

"Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on."
-Henry Rollins

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

"A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!"
-J. K. Rowling

"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."
-Kin Hubbard

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

"Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven."
-Henri Frederic Amiel

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

"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."
-Elvis Presley

"I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland."
-Woody Allen

"I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul."
-Henry Rollins

"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."
-George Eliot

"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

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

"Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away."
-Sir Thomas Beecham

"I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down."
-Virgil Thomson

"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."
-Samuel Johnson

"No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
-W. H. Auden