“The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.”
“One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.”
“Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.”
“If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.”
“A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.”
“I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.”
“Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.”
“I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.”
“Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.”
“I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.”
“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
“Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.”
“The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”