Music Quotes

• "If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!"
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "When I wished to sing of love it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow it was transformed for me into love."
  By: Franz Schubert
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• "But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument."
  By: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
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• "If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good."
  By: Abbie Hoffman
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• "These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity the sound achieved by the pig."
  By: Alfred Hitchcock
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• "If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."
  By: Albert Einstein
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• "I hate music, especially when it's played."
  By: Jimmy Durante
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• "Music is the space between the notes."
  By: Claude Debussy
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• "Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes."
  By: Claude Debussy
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• "Collect impressions. Don't be in a hurry to write them down. Because that's something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations of colour and light within a single picture - a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is."
  By: Claude Debussy
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• "I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world."
  By: Jadelr and Cristina Cordova
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• "Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.N.B.: This quote is commonly misquoted as "savage beast.""
  By: William Congreve
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• "Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."
  By: William Congreve
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• "Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is music where ever there is a harmony, order, or proportion: and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres."
  By: Sir Thomas Browne
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• "Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music."
  By: Allan Bloom
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