music

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

- Francois Voltaire Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Elvis Presley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

- Mark Twain Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Music inflames temperament.

- Jim Morrison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Henry David Thoreau Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.

- Jules Combarieu Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Oscar Wilde Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Oscar Wilde Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Richard Strauss Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Henry Louis Mencken Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Michel de Montaigne Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Henry Mitchell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Henry Moore Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.'

- Igor Stravinsky Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Joseph Addison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Max Beerbohm Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Beethoven Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- George Gordon Byron Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

- Thomas Carlyle Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

- Noµl Pierce Coward Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Honoré de Balzac Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Thomas Fuller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes