Glorious the song, when God’s the theme.
Music Quotes
Beethoven asked me If I had not observed how village musicians often played in their sleep, occasionally letting their instruments fall and remaining entirely quiet, then awakening with a start, throwing in a few vigorous blows or strokes at a venture, but generally in the right key, and then falling asleep again; he had tried […]
Is it not strange that sheeps’ guts should hale souls out of men’s bodies? (Much Ado About Nothing)
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.
