Famous Musical Quotes
- Music is love in search of a word. ~Sidney Lanier
- Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach
- Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, sings. ~Ed Gardner
- The fact that the public in general does not understand and appreciate the best things is the reason people like me get famous. ~Brahms
- There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. ~George Bernard Shaw
- Without music life would be a mistake. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
- Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Music expresses that which cannot be said and that which cannot remain silent. ~Victor Hugo
- If music be the food of love; play on. ~William Shakespeare
- Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. ~Plato
- Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune. ~Kin Hubbard
- Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. ~Confucius
- Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven. ~Lawrence Duncan
- The pause is as important as the note. ~Truman Fisher
- Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. ~Joseph Addison
- A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. ~Benny Green
- The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. ~Leonard Bernstein
- The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't got the joke yet. ~Oliver Herford
- Music is the universal language of mankind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
