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Quotations
 | Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 13 likes |
 | Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 13 likes |
 | Without music, life would be a mistake. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 9 likes |
 | It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 7 likes |
 | Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 6 likes |
 | You are the music while the music lasts. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 6 likes |
 | Love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America. — Frank Zappa, 1940-1993, American musician 6 likes |
 | I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 6 likes |
 | One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 5 likes |
 | It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 5 likes |
 | Wagner has beautiful moments but awful quarters of an hour. — Gioachino Rossini, 1792-1868, Italian music composer 4 likes |
 | The opera…is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 4 likes |
 | My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 4 likes |
 | The medicine of the future will be music and sound. — Edgar Cayce, 1877-1945, American mystic & prophet 4 likes |
 | Music is the occult metaphysical exercise of a soul not knowing that it philosophizes. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 3 likes |
| Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 3 likes |
 | All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 3 likes |
 | The earth has music for those who listen. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 3 likes |
 | If music be the food of love, play on. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Twelfth Night 3 likes |
 | Music is the poor man's Parnassus. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 2 likes |
| Give me a laundress’ list and I will set to music even that. — Gioachino Rossini, 1792-1868, Italian music composer 2 likes |
| Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day. — Gioachino Rossini, 1792-1868, Italian music composer 2 likes |
 | Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter. — John Keats, 1795-1821, English poet 2 likes |
 | Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 2 likes |
 | If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. — Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, British scientist 2 likes |
 | Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 2 likes |
 | Music is well said to be the speech of angels |
 | The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight. |
 | Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes |
| The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments. |
 | The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. |
 | After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. |
 | Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. |
 | Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture. |
 | No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. |
 | The divorce of poetry and music was first reflected by the printed page. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously. |
| Music is the can-opener of the soul. |
 | If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. |
| Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages. |
| Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. |
| Music is the only religion that delivers the goods. |
| Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. |
| Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny. |
| Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love.
Love is not music. Music is THE BEST. |
| If you learn music you'll learn most all there is to know. |
 | There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. — Gottfried Leibnitz, 1646-1716, German philosopher & mathematician |
| Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul. — Gottfried Leibnitz, 1646-1716, German philosopher & mathematician |
 | The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth. |
Personal Stories
| I know of nothing better than the Appassionata and could listen to it every day. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 8 likes |
 | If I had not experienced what I experienced, I would not have written this music. Music for me has never been an end in itself, it is something that I have lived. — Mikis Theodorakis, 1925-2021, Greek composer & politician 3 likes |
| The iPod is genius. I have 300. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 2 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Who hears music feels his solitude Peopled at once. — Robert Browning, 1812-1889, British poet 3 likes |
 | The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more. — William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, English poet 2 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 14 likes |
 | Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. — Robert Benchley, 1889-1945, American columnist 4 likes |
 | I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 4 likes |
 | I remixed a remix, it was back to normal. — Mitch Hedberg, 1968-2005, American comedian 2 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Play it once, Sam, for old times' sake...Play it, Sam. Play “As Time Goes By”. — from the film Casablanca (1942) 4 likes |
