Music Quotes

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. (Wystan H. Auden, 1907-1973)

It is quite untrue that the English people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes. (Thomas Beecham, 1879-1961)

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. (Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827)

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881)

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is (Noel P. Coward, 1899-1973)

People are wrong when they say that opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what is wrong with it. (Noel P. Coward, 1899-1973)

I hate music, especially when it's played. (Jimmy Durante, 1893-1980)

Music-Hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom. (William Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965)

Without music, life would be a mistake. (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844-1900)

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing what one says. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900)

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