Music Quotes by William Shakespeare

He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.

— William Shakespeare

I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.

— William Shakespeare

How soar sweet music is, when time is broke, and no proportion kept!

— William Shakespeare

Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music.

— William Shakespeare

I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

— William Shakespeare

The earth has music for those that listen.

— William Shakespeare

“I will play the swan. And die in music.”

— William Shakespeare

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

— William Shakespeare

It is my soul that calls upon my name; How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears!…

— William Shakespeare

“The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than…

— William Shakespeare

Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

— William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so…

— William Shakespeare

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.

— William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on. Giveme excess of it, so that in surfeiting, I may sicken, and so…

— William Shakespeare

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems…

— William Shakespeare

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare

— William Shakespeare

And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her…

— William Shakespeare

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help…

— William Shakespeare

Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of…

— William Shakespeare

The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his…

— William Shakespeare

“There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring [making music] to the…

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Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook…

— William Shakespeare

Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind…

— William Shakespeare

“Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy Be heaped like mine, and that thy skill be more To blazon it, then…

— William Shakespeare

“I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much, He is a great…

— William Shakespeare

Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants…

— William Shakespeare

“By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; since nought so stockish,…

— William Shakespeare

I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not…

— William Shakespeare

“Why, masters, have your instruments been in Naples, that they speak i’ the nose thus? FIRST MUSICIAN How, sir, how! CLOWN Are…

— William Shakespeare

He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As…

— William Shakespeare

But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain;…

— William Shakespeare

Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st. Suppose the singing birds…

— William Shakespeare

“I do not well understand that. Will you play upon this pipe? GUILDENSTERN: My lord, I cannot. HAMLET: I pray you. GUILDENSTERN:…

— William Shakespeare

“If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so…

— William Shakespeare

“Are you ready, sir? Orsino. Ay; prithee, sing. [Music] 945 SONG. Feste. Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let…

— William Shakespeare

“Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?”

— William Shakespeare

“There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.”

— William Shakespeare

The man that hath no music in himself

— William Shakespeare

Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.

— William Shakespeare

If music is the food of love, play on

— William Shakespeare