If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
~Gustav Mahler
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| Music is the shorthand of emotion. ~Leo Tolstoy |
| The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. ~Leonard Bernstein |
The pause is as important as the note.
~Truman Fisher |
| Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven. ~Lawrence Duncan |
| Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket. ~Henri Rabaud |
| The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't got the joke yet. ~Oliver Herford |
| I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else. ~Lily Tomlin |
| If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong. ~Simon Rattle |
| The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. ~Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz |
| Wagner's music is better than it sounds. ~Edgar Wilson Nye - US humorist |
| I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. ~Elvis Presley |
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
~William F. Buckley, Jr. |
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
~Samuel Johnson - English author, critic, & lexicographer |
| Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak. ~William Congreve - English Playwright (1670 - 1729) |
| If music be the food of love play on. Give me excess of it, that surfeiting the appetite may sicken and so die. ~William Shakespeare - English Playwright |
