16 Interesting Sayings About Music

I love Beethoven, especially the poems.
-Ringo Starr

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

The trouble with real life is that there’s no danger music.
-Jim Carrey

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.
-Johann Sebastian Bach

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
-Berthold Auerbach

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
-Edward Gardner

I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it’s part of growing up in the Western world.
-Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?
-Michael Torke

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a producer.
-Cole Porter

Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living.
-Kirke Mecham

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-Igor Stravinsky

I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the manmade sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
-Albert Hitchcock

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
-Arthur Honegger

In opera, there is always too much singing.
-Claude Debussy

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.
-Sir Thomas Beecham

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

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