Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.
—John Ruskin, 1865Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it by conversation.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945He who sings frightens away his ills.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCMusic today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887Music is our myth of the inner life.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.
—Virgil, 38 BCExtraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930