Music Quote by William Shakespeare

“But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory--disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man moves from…

— Robertson Davies

“Music was a balm for any weary soul. It could either lift a person out of the doldrums or comfort him if there was…

— Lisa Lewis

“Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust; and music, even in situations…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Oratory is the highest form of music”

— Agona Apell

Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were…

— Franz Kafka

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

— Pat Conroy

“The music--the making of music and the performing of music--produced memories, many good, some bad, some difficult. But he knew for sure that he'd…

— Graham Joyce

“Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words. And suddenly he realized that all his life he had done nothing but talk, write, lecture,…

— Milan Kundera

So why must it wound him that the most despairing music is full of beauty? Why must it hurt him and make him cynical…

— Anne Rice

“Loving music had pushed all of us off the track- away from the normal pursuit of career, mate, and family, on an endless quest…

— Ann Powers

“But there was a discipline, it was just that we didn’t understand. We thought he was formless, but I think now he was tormented…

— Michael Ondaatje

“But he played music so loudly he could not hear his pain. He stunted his growth beneath a bass that decorated his aura and…

— Karl Kristian Flores