Music Quotes - random
Everything that disturbs me I could have translated, had I been spared the shame of not being a musician.
When words leave off, music begins.
There is nothing more regenerating than music.
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.
The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music . . . because music was my escape.
Bernstein has been disclosing musical secrets that have been well known for over 400 years.
I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.
"Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also."
"Well, anyway, I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the War."
Music is the outward and audible signification of inward and spiritual realities.
Music is the great cheer-up in the language of all countries.
Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime,
'T is angels' music.
If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.
Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.
Rhythmical music is that which is made by instruments which render the sound by touch.
Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease; and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
The transmission of musical impulse through gesture.
There is still much good music that can be written in C major.
Se questa non piace, non voglio pi? scrivere di musica.