Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
G. K. Chesterton
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
John Erskine
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Oscar Wilde
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
Sir Thomas Beecham
Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Music is the universal language of mankind
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
Kahlil Gibran
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven
Henri Frederic Amiel
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
Sir Thomas Beecham
When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war
Confucius
...my music isn't just music- it's medicine.
Kanye West
Themes are important to me, but the beats are what catches someone's ear and makes a record a hit, ... The music is more important than anything. You can have instrumental tracks and people will listen to it. But if you put a really good theme to a bad beat, no one will care about it.
Kanye West