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Quotations by Subject: Music
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Hell is full of musical amateurs.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) act 3
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 (1819 - 1880)
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880), The Mill on the Floss, 1860
Music is essentially useless, as life is.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
My music is best understood by children and animals.: Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971), In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.: Jadelr and Cristina Cordova, Chasing Windmills, 07-24-06
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
I hate music, especially when it's played.: Jimmy Durante (1893 - 1980)
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.: John Cage (1912 - 1992)
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.: John Erskine (1879 - 1951)
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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 (1483 - 1546)
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.: Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
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 (1809 - 1894)
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.: Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.: Robert Fripp
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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 (1892 - 1965)
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.: Sir Thomas Beecham (1879 - 1961)
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.: Sir Thomas Beecham (1879 - 1961)
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.: Virgil Thomson (1896 - 1989)
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.: Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.: W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)

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