Funny Music Quotes

• Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

  Jean Paul

  Funny, Music, Night

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• Where words fail, music speaks.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Inspirational, Music, Art

  Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”

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• Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.

  Ray Charles

  Funny, Music, Wisdom

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• Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

  Ronald Reagan

  Life, Music, Song

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• Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

  Confucius

  Music, Wisdom, Art

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• I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

  George Burns

  Funny, Music, Scotch

  George Burns (1980). “Living It Up”, Berkley

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• Music gives a soul to the universe.

  Plato

  Music, Wings, Giving

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• One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

  Bob Marley

  Funny, Music, Wisdom

  Song: Trenchtown Rock

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• Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

  Leigh Hunt

  Music, Wisdom, Heart

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• People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Music, Keys, Play

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• Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

  Pat Conroy

  Music, Journey, Desert

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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• Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

  Frederic Chopin

  Beautiful, Guitar, Two

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  A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

  Tom Waits

  Funny, Music, Humorous

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  Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Music, Dance

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• Music is the universal language of mankind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Music, Appreciation, Teacher

  1835 OutreMer. Also attributed to Christopher North (1865-1954).

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• Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

  Paul Simon

  Wisdom, Dope, Forever

  "Raffi: Advocate for Children, Earth and Music". Interview with Marilyn Price-Mitchell, www.rootsofaction.com. August 2014.

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• Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Music, Piano, Feelings

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• When a piece gets difficult, make faces.

  Artur Schnabel

  Pieces, Faces, Problem Solving

  Quoted in Oscar LevantTheUnimportance of BeingOscar (1968).

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• Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

  Thomas Beecham

  Funny, Music, Brass Bands

  “Readers recommend: best brass songs” by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2014.

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• All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Music, People

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• Country music is three chords and the truth.

  Harlan Howard

  Music, Country, Inspiration

  "Country Scribe Harlan Howard Dies" by Andrew Dansby, www.rollingstone.com. March 5, 2002.

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• Hell is full of musical amateurs.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Music, Clever, Hell

  Man and Superman act 3 (1903)

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• You are the music while the music lasts.

  T. S. Eliot

  Music, Dope, Jazz And Life

  Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 5 (1941)

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• Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational Music, Together, Body

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