Quotes

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

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

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

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
-Mencius

If I ever die of a heart attack, I hope it will be from playing my stereo too loud.
-Anonymous Author

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
-Charlie Parker

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

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

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

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

He who sings scares away his woes.
-Cervantes

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
-Sydney Smith

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp

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

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

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

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

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.
-Henry David Thoreau

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

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 he sings.
-Edward Gardner

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski

Music is what feelings sound like.
-Anonymous Author

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.
-Edward Elgar