Music Quote by Mikhail Bulgakov

“But in a gale, the silent machinery of a sailing-ship would catch not only the power, but the wild and exulting voice of the…

— Joseph Conrad

“The musicians-how shall one begin to describe them? All this time they have been there, playing in a mad frenzy-all of this scene must…

— Upton Sinclair

“The music interrupted mockingbirds and cardinals and half-hour church bells. It was at times orchestral and at times a cappella, a mighty love song…

— Rita Leganski

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

— John Milton

“It was one of those southern nights under whose spell all the sterner energies of the mind cloak themselves and lie down in bivouac,…

— George W. Cable

“Why must I hear, in summer evenings fine, A thousand happier birds in merry choirs? And I, poor lonely I, in grief repine, Caged…

— Jane Taylor

“The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I step naked into the street. The…

— Federico García Lorca

“Musical myths speak with authority about our society, its fragility, its strengths, its desires, and its limits. Music becomes a wise version of the…

— Edward Rothstein

“The night seemed suddenly defiled by the absence of music, as if the silence itself was injecting a sickness that only another song could…

— Jake Vander Ark

“The world is filled with people who are no longer needed—and who try to make slaves of all of us—and they have their music…

— Woodie Gurthie

Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.

— John Milton

“I drifted on through the midst of this passionate music and motion, across many a glen, from ridge to ridge; often halting in the…

— John Muir