Musical Quotes

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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — Wystan Hugh Auden
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will… — Johann Sebastian Bach
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. — Johann Sebastian Bach
There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. — Erykah Badu
I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and… — Amy Adams
I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways. — Amy Adams
Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain. — Mikhail Bakunin
I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth of musical equipment… — Antonio Banderas
I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of… — Todd Barry
Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Any good music must be an innovation. — Les Baxter
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. — Ludwig van Beethoven
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between. — Thomas Beecham
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one… — Walter Benjamin
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. — Warren G. Bennis
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. — Leonard Bernstein

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