“If music be the food of love; play on.”
“Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.”
“Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.”
“Music is spiritual. The music business is not.”
“Good music is very close to primitive language.”
“Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.”
“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
“Musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.”
“That nothing is capable of being well set to Musick, that is not Nonsense.”
“Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.”
“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
“A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.”
“It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.”
“There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.”
“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.”
“Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”
“Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.”
“There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.”
“What we play is life.”
“Mozart is sweet sunshine.”
“Song is the heroics of speech.”
“Music should never be harmless.”
“Only sick music makes money today.”
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
“The high note is not the only thing.”
“Music causes us to think eloquently.”
“Music is only love looking for words.”
“Music is the key to the female heart.”
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
“Canned music is like audible wallpaper.”