music

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Music inflames temperament.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.

Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below.

'I don't', she added, 'know anything about music, really. But I know what I like'.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, And bring tears from the eyes of woman.

There's music in the sighing of a reed There's music in the gushing of a rill There's music in all things, if men had ears Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time And tune.