Famous Quotations About Music and Musicians

Here are some famous quotations about music and musicians. We have quotes made by Elvis Presley, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gioacchino Rossini, Igor Stravinsky plus others.

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Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

I look upon opera as a magic scene contrived to please the eyes and the ears at the expense of the understanding.

I'll play it first and tell you what it is later

If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it in conversation.

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend hearing it a second time.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

Wagner had some wonderful moments but awful half hours.

What I want to write is songs without words - or music.

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