Musical Quotes - Page 3

• Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Wisdom, Heaven

  'A Song for St Cecilia's Day'

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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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  Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

  Plato

  Music, Plato, Soul

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• Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Wisdom, Art

  Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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• When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

  E. W. Howe

  Music, Piano, People

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• Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Music, Soul, Honor

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• We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Inspirational, Music, Dream

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• There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

  Thomas Beecham

  Funny, Music, Two

  In Harold Atkins and Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978) p. 27

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• Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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• Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already.

  Gustav Mahler

  Looks, Bother

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• The amount of money one needs is terrifying.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Needs, Amount

  Ludwig van Beethoven (1985). “The letters of Beethoven”

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• I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?

  Dimitris Mitropoulos

  Book, Doe, Use

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• I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.

  James Sellars

  Doe, Strings, Cranky

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• I think that music has an endless life.

  Anne Dudley

  Thinking, Endless, Endless Life

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• Even if you can't sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Home, Privacy, Wells

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• After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.

  Arturo Toscanini

  Funny, Humor, Earth

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• He'd be better off shoveling snow.

  Richard Strauss

  Snow, Better Off

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• There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

  Isaac Stern

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Musician

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• If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.

  Walter Damrosch

  Writing, Men, Years

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• I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere.

  Frederic Chopin

  Paris, Ass, Pianist

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• We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.

  Thomas Beecham

  Good Enough, Enough, Be Good

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• If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.

  Maurice Ravel

  War, Shells, Might

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• Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.

  Helmut Walcha

  Music, Piano, People

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• The devil doesn't stay where there is music.

  Martin Luther

  Devil, Doe, Music Is

  "Conversations with Luther: Selections from Recently Published Sources of the Table Talk".

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• Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on.

  Thomas Beecham

  Singing, Brake, Carts

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