Famous Quotes About Music

Seated one day at the organ,
I was weary and ill at ease.
And my fingers wandered idly,
Over the noisy keys

But I struck one chord of music,
Like the sound of a great Amen.

Anne Adelaide Proctor: 1825 - 64 (British Poet & Writer)

There's sure no passion in the English soul,
But finds its food in music

George Lilo:  1693-1739 (English Dramatist)

Strange how important cheap music is.

Noel Coward: 1899-1973

I don't write modern music, I only write good music.

Igor Stravinsky: 1882-1971 (Russian Born, U.S.  Composer)

If all arts apsired to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics

George Santayana: 1863 - 1952 (U.S. Philosopher & Poet)

If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and die

William Shakespeare: (1564-1616)

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light

I love music passionately, and because I love it I try to free it from the barren conditions that stifle it

Claude Achille Debussy: 1862 - 1918 (French Composer)

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