Music Quotes

  • And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
    ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
  • No good opera plot can be sensible:people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
    ~ Wystan Hugh Auden
  • The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.
    ~ Dave Barry
  • Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
    ~ Robert Benchley
  • If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
    ~ Simon Denis Rattle
  • Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker.
    ~ William Green
  • All the shopping malls and restaurants and airports are riddled with low-fidelity loudspeakers, which apparently have developed the ability to reproduce by themselves; these are all connected to a special programming service called Music That Nobody Really Likes, and you cannot get away from it.
    ~ Dave Barry
  • It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.
    ~ Victor de LaPrade
  • Music is love in search of a word.
    ~ Sidney Clopton Lanier
  • After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
    ~ Aldous Huxley
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