Quotes about Music


Music is the universal language of mankind.

--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


I listened, motionless and still;

And, as I mounted up the hill,

The music in my heart I bore,

Long after it was heard no more.

--William Wordsworth


Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

--Amiel\


After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

--Aldous Huxley


Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

--Thomas Beecham


Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

--Lord Erskine


The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

--Horace


Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

--Thomas Carlyle

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