Music Quotes

• "Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music."
  By: Allan Bloom
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• "Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable."
  By: Leonard Bernstein
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• "Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul."
  By: Johann Sebastian Bach
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• "No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
  By: W. H. Auden
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• "I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand."
  By: Sir Edward Appleton
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• "Where words fail, music speaks."
  By: Hans Christian Andersen
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• "I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland."
  By: Woody Allen
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• "Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours."
  By: Gioacchino Rossini
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• "Life without music would be a mistake."
  By: Friedrich Nietzsche
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• "Music must rank as the highest of the arts -- more than any other, it ministers to human welfare."
  By: Herbert Spencer
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• "Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have here below."
  By: Joseph Addison, from A Song for St. Cecilia's Day
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• "We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency."
  By: Mark Twain
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• "Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune."
  By: Kin Hubbard
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• "The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at."
  By: Horace
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• "Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle."
  By: Thomas Beecham
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• "Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven."
  By: Amiel
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