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Quotations by Subject: Music
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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
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Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
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Robert Fripp
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
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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.
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Sir Edward Appleton (1892 - 1965)
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
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Sir Thomas Beecham (1879 - 1961)
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
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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.
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Virgil Thomson (1896 - 1989)
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
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Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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William Congreve (1670 - 1729), The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1
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!
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Twelfth Night", Act 1 scene 1
When griping grief the heart doth wound,
and doleful dumps the mind opresses,
then music, with her silver sound,
with speedy help doth lend redress.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
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