Music Quotes

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.

Without music, life would be a mistake… I would only believe in a God that knew how to dance.

I can see fiddling around with a banjo, but how do you banjo around with a fiddle?

There aren’t any modal composers, tonal composers, or serial composers. There is only music that is coloured and music that isn’t.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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.