“Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.”
“The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.”
“Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.”
“A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.”
“Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.”
“A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.”
“Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.”
“There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.”
“Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.”
“There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.”
“A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.”
“The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.”
“I know only two tunes. One them is ''Yankee Doodle'' and the other isn't.”
“Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.”
“Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.”
“Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?”
“If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.”
“Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.”
“The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.”
“Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.”
“Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.”
“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.”
“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
“Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs”
“Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.”
“Music has charms to soothe the savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”
“Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent”
“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.”
“If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.”
“A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.”