Is it not strange that sheeps’ guts should hale souls out of men’s bodies? (Much Ado About Nothing)
Music Quotes
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
When I don’t like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely.
I am never merry when I hear sweet music. (The Merchant of Venice)
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides!
Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony… Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st But in his motion like an angel sings, […]
Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
When a piece gets difficult, make faces.
When griping grief the heart doth wound and doleful dumps the mind oppress then music with the silver sound with speedy help, doth lend redress. (“Romeo and Juliet”)
