A complete collection of inspirational excerpts of music quotes and aphorisms in English

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau

Music expression is cannot be described in words, but not impossible to remain silent things. - Victor Hugo

Music education and education, and is not a musician of the first is man's education. - SuHuoM LinSiJi

Without music, life is no value. - Nietzsche

No early music education, doing things I can do nothing. - Albert Einstein

Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu

After silence, that which comes nearest to express the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley

Opera in English is , in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.　 -- H. L. Mencken

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley

Propel , propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.

-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boat" on his television show, "Miste

r Rogers' Neighborhood."

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.　 -- George Bernard Shaw

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, "No." -- Aaron Copland

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962