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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
-Joseph Addison
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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
-Joseph Addison
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Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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Where words fail, music speaks.
-Hans Christian Andersen
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A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
-Ian Anderson
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Music is the universal language: it is the same anywhere you go in the world.
-Anonymous
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What we play is life.
-Louis Armstrong
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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.
-Louis Armstrong
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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.
-Jacques Attali
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
-W. H. Auden
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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
-Berthold Auerbach
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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
-Lauren Bacall
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I have always kept one end in view, namely . . . to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
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Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
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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.
-Sir Thomas Beecham
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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
-Sir Thomas Beecham
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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
-Sir Thomas Beecham
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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
-Sir Thomas Beecham
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This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
-Max Beerbohm
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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
-Ludwig van Beethoven
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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig van Beethoven
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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
-Ludwig van Beethoven
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What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the changes of time, and - more's the pity- the fashions of time, only that which is good and true will endure like a rock and no wanton hand will ever venture to defile it. Then, let every man do that which is right, strive with all his might towards the goal which can never be obtained, develop to the last breath the gifts with which the gracious Creator has endowed him, and never cease to learn. For life is short, art eternal.
-Ludwig van Beethoven
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I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man
-Leonard Bernstein
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Books about Music
