Art / Music Quotes by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW-1427432396

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.



Art / Music Quotes by MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE-1427432363

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.



Art / Music Quotes by JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH-1427432249

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.



Art / Music Quotes by IGOR STRAVINSKY-1427432182

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.



Art / Music Quotes by GROUCHO MARX-1427432117

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.



Art / Music Quotes by FRANCOIS CAVANNA-1427432078

When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.



Art / Music Quotes by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN-1427432008

Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.



Art / Music Quotes by PABLO PICASSO-1427431975

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.



Art / Music Quotes by ROBERT FROST-1427431853

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.



Art / Music Quotes by ELVIS PRESLEY-1427431733

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.



Art / Music Quotes by FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE-1427258060

Only sick music makes money today.



Art / Music Quotes by GEORGE ELIOT-1427257992

Engrave this Quote I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.



Art / Music Quotes by GEORGE SANTAYANA-1427257930

Music is essentially useless, as life is.



Art / Music Quotes by HOMER-1427257889

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.



Art / Music Quotes by JIMMY DURANTE-1427257853

I hate music, especially when it's played.



Art / Music Quotes by KIN HUBBARD-1427257764

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



Art / Music Quotes by MARK TWAIN-1427257718

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.



Art / Music Quotes by MARTIN LUTHER-1427257680

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.



Art / Music Quotes by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES-1427171260

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.



Art / Music Quotes by PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS-1427171176

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.



Art / Music Quotes by ROBERT FRIPP-1427170932

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.



Art / Music Quotes by SAMUEL JOHNSON-1427170865

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.



Art / Music Quotes by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM-1427170820

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.



Art / Music Quotes by WILLIAM CONGREVE-1427170776

Music hat charms to soothe a savage breast



Art / Music Quotes by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE-1427170698

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violet



Art / Music Quotes by CHRISTIAN CARDELL CORBET-1427170617

When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes!



Art / Music Quotes by CHARLES HORTON COOLEY-1427084471

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.



Art / Music Quotes by ALBERT CAMUS-1427084412

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.



Art / Music Quotes by MAX EASTMAN-1427084397

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.



Art / Music Quotes by PAUL GAUGUIN-1427084172

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.



Art / Music Quotes by KHALIL GIBRAN-1427084094

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.



Argument / Debate Quotes by DAVE BARRY-1427084017

I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.



Appearance / Attitudes Quotes by SAMUEL JOHNSON-1427083952

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts.



Art / Music Quotes by PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS-1427083878

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.