Famous Music Quotes in English with Images

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'

- Music Quotes by Aaron Copland

[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; that is just truth, plain and simple.

- Music Quotes by Chuck Singer

But then there's a monument like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it’s a all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.  It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain.  Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filed with music.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

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

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

- Music Quotes by Aldous Huxley Download or Share

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Only sick music makes money today.

- Music Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Download or Share

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

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

Music is essentially useless, as life is .

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

- J. K. Rowling Quotes

I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western World.

- Father and Cristina Cordova Quotes

I hate music, especially when it's played.

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego.  You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

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

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

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

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't heart it.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - Outdoors and several miles away.

The way to write American music is simple.  All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

My Loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Music has Charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

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!

- William Shakespeare Quotes

When griping grief the heart doth wound,
and doleful dumps the mind oppresses,
then music, with her silver sound,
with speedy help doth lend redress.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.