A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
Music Quotes
There is a Temple in Heaven that is opened only through song.
Accordion, n.: A bagpipe with pleats.
Ya Got Trouble… Libertine men and scarlet women-and ragtime! Shameless music that’ll grab your son, your daughter In the arms of a jungle animal instinct – massteria!
And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him. (1 Samuel 16:23)
Opera: the graveyard of melody.
Piano playing – a dance of human fingers.
A tale out of season (is as) music in mourning. (Ecclesiasticus 22:6)
Jack Benny played Mendelssohn last night. Mendelssohn lost.
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
