Music Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author
Hearing often-times The still, sad music of humanity.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English poet
Is it not strange that sheep’s guts should hale souls out of men’s bodies?
Benedick, Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet
Hearing in the distance Two mandolins like creatures in the dark Creating the agony of ecstasy.
George Barker (b. 1913) British author, poet
Swans sing before they die— ’twere no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet
Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author of a violinist’s playing
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed its point.
Maria Callas (1923-1977) Greek-American opera singer
Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune.
Kin (F. McKinney) Hubbard (1868-1930) American humorist, journalist
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) French composer
Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) French writer, film director
The good composer is slowly discovered, the bad composer is slowly found out.
Sir Ernest Newman (1868-1959) British musicologist
I know only two tunes; one of them is “Yankee Doodle,” and the other isn’t.
Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) American president
Canned music is like audible wall-paper.
Alistair Cooke (b. 1908) British journalist, broadcaster
I do not see any good reason why the devil should have all the good tunes.
Rowland Hill (1744-1833) English preacher, publisher of hymns
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
Don Juan, Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
The English may not like music — but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
Sir Thomas Beecham (1879-1961) British conductor
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.
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) German author, critic
