Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.

Dance tunes are always right.

Music is our myth of the inner life.

If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it by conversation.

Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.

All the daughters of music shall be brought low.

If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.

Without music life would be a mistake.

I never practice, I always play.

All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.

The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.