Music Quote by Hilary T. Smith

“The orchestral music is glorious but I wish they'd stop playing for a minute: it's very hard to eavesdrop properly over a grand piano…

— Holly Smale

“When at last I feel ready to tackle the whole of the piece, I begin slowly, delighting in the silvery tone of this violin…

— Pat Lowery Collins

“I loved the idea that looking at a painting or listening to a concerto could make you somehow "transcend" the day-in, day-out bullshit that…

— Mary Karr

“At that moment a solitary violin struck up. But the music was not dance music; it was more like a song - a solemn,…

— Jennifer Paynter

“And you listen to some of that meticulous Mozart stuff and Vivaldi and you realize that they knew that too. They knew when to…

— Keith Richards

“Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high at the…

— Malcolm Cowley

“My soul is like a hidden orchestra; I do not know which instruments grind and play away inside of me, strings and harps, timbales…

— Fernando Pessoa

“My melancholy wants to rest in the hiding places and abysses of perfection: that is why I need music.”

— Nietzsche Friedrich

“Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished”

— Esmé Raji Codell

“But only in music, and only on rare occasions, does the curtain actually lift on this dream of community, and it's tantalisingly conjured, before…

— Ian McEwan

“There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.”

— Anonymous

“Until she walked into my life I was simply a violin of rusted notes. In one night she rearranged the mess inside me, exposing…

— Poppet