Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
Music Quotes
All you feel like listening to Beethoven is going out and invading Poland.
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
Under the window somebody was singing. Winston peeped out, secure in the protection of the muslin curtain. The June sun was still high in the sky, and in the sun-filled court below a monstrous woman, solid as a Norman pillar, with brawny red forearms and a sacking apron strapped about her middle, was stumping to […]
When you are about thirty-five years old, something terrible always happens to music.
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
I did. (to a fan who said she’d give her life to be able to play piano like that)
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
The conductor’s task is really not unlike that of a prostitute; it consists of performing to make other people happy, no matter how you feel yourself – and then passing the hat.
I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet.