Musical Quotes

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

Music is what feelings sound like.  ~ Author Unknown

Music is the universal language of mankind.  ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~ Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be  silent.  ~ Victor Hugo

All music is folk music.  I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.  ~ Louis  Armstrong

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:
And as the mind is pitch'd the ear  is pleased
With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;
Some chord in  unison with what we hear
Is touch'd within us, and the heart  replies.
~ William Cowper

Strong lager and some early Zep tunes.  I ask thee, is there a better way to  spend an evening?  ~Author Unknown

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky. ~ Salamon Short

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.” ~ Albert Einstein

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”   ~ Plato



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