If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it by conversation.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCThe tune I remember, could I but keep the words.
—Virgil, 38 BCAll of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893Music is our myth of the inner life.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942He who sings frightens away his ills.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.
—John Ruskin, 1865Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759