Music Quotes

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

Among God’s creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not be separated from the man.

It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin – not sounding like them, but ‘playing’ the voice like those instruments.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

Music is the key to the female heart.

Glorious the song, when God’s the theme.

Beethoven asked me If I had not observed how village musicians often played in their sleep, occasionally letting their instruments fall and remaining entirely quiet, then awakening with a start, throwing in a few vigorous blows or strokes at a venture, but generally in the right key, and then falling asleep again; he had tried […]

Is it not strange that sheeps’ guts should hale souls out of men’s bodies? (Much Ado About Nothing)

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

When I don’t like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely.