The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
Music Quotes
I am not of the opinion that all the arts shall be crushed to earth and perish through the Gospel, as some bigoted persons pretend, but would willingly see them all, and especially music, servants of Him who gave and created them.
There are, indeed, only two kinds of music: German music and bad music.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Objectivity in music is rubbish – Have you ever had an objective love affair? And what is music but love?
Nothing on earth is so well suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.
I don’t go to hear music much because I dislike sitting in seats, confined for an hour or two between maybe unpleasant people and having to hear stuff that maybe I don’t want to hear. When you go to a concert, you have to take what the professor offers.
Compare the music of the Beggar’s Opera with the music of a contemporary revue. They differ as life in the Garden of Eden differed from life in the artistic quarter of Gomorrah.
The sweetest music is the sound of the voice of the woman we love.
Music makes people kinder, gentler, more staid and reasonable. The devil flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the word of God.
