Music Quotes

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

I’ll play it first and tell you what it is afterwards.

Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

That’s it! That’s the noise I want to make! (statement when he saw Pete Seeger on TV playing banjo)

In experiments, the plants grew lush foliage and large roots when baroque music was played to them, and they leaned toward the music as if toward the sun.

In music’s sweet harmony, I have all the proof I need of God.

A (film) musician is like a mortician. He can’t bring a body to life, but he can make it look better.

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

Composers shouldn’t think too much it interferes with their plagiarism.