From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Style is a sort of melody that comes into my sentences by itself. If a writer says what he has to say… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
