Our music is like cannons hidden in roses.
Music Quotes
I perceive you delight not in music… Not a whit, when it jars so. (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)
They said, “You have a blue guitar, You do not play things as they are.” The man replied, “Things as they Are are changed upon a blue guitar.”
It’s a well-kept secret that there are really only four tunes in old-time music: the G Tune, the A Tune, the D Tune, and the C Tune. It’s an even better-kept secret that these four tunes sound exactly the same.
In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
This music mads me; let it sound no more; For though it have holp madmen to their wits, In me it seems it will make wise men mad. Yet blessing on his heart that gives it me! For ’tis a sign of love; and love to Richard Is a strange brooch in this all-hating world. […]
Just as my fingers on the keys Make music, so the self same sounds On my spirit make a music, too. Music is feeling, then, not sound.
Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.
For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
How sour sweet music is When time is broke and no proportions kept! So it is in the music of men’s lives. (Richard II)
