Famous Quotes About music

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

Where words fail, music speaks.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

When words leave off, music begins.