Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast,"
And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast.

"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast,"
And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune.

Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune.

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

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

I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to read more

I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.