life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- samuel butler

music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- g. k. chesterton

military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- george clemenceau

music expression is cannot be described in words, but not impossible to remain silent things. - victor hugo

music education and education, and is not a musician of the first is man's education. - suhuom linsiji

without music, life is no value. - nietzsche

no early music education, doing things i can do nothing. - albert einstein

music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- jules combarieu

after silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.-- aldous huxley

opera in english is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in italian.-- h. l. mencken

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.-- michel de montaigne

i don't know anything about music. in my line you don't have to.-- elvis presley

propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, existence is simply illusion.

-- fred rogers, parody of "row, row, row your boat" on his television show, "mister rogers' neighborhood."

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.-- george bernard shaw

never look at the trombones. you'll only encourage them.-- richard strauss, on conducting

the whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "is there a meaning to music?" my answer would be, "yes." and "can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" my answer to that would be, "no." -- aaron copland

we don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- decca recording company, rejecting the beatles, 1962