Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
- Aldous Huxley
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
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.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
If music be the food of love, play on.
- Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
- John Keats
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
- Miles Davis
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
- Joseph Addison
A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
- Henry Giles
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
- Edward Gardner
Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
- Josh Billings
The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.
- Oliver Herford
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
- Sir Thomas Beecham
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
- Leopold Stokowski
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
- Mencius
He who sings scares away his woes.
- Cervantes
Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Music is what feelings sound like.
- Author Unknown
If I ever die of a heart attack, I hope it will be from playing my stereo too loud.
- Anonymous
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
- Sydney Smith
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.
- Henry David Thoreau
My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.
- Edward Elgar
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
- Charlie Parker
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
- Robert Fripp
