If music be the food of love, play on.
(William Shakespeare)

A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
(Anonymous)

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)

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 is the art of thinking with sounds.
(Jules Combarieu)

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)

This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the floor. Digital technology will now faithfully reproduce these noisy, low-fi, un-professional masters at great expense. feel stupid yet?
(Disclaimer on a CD)

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
(Robert Frost)

Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
(Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music")

If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
(Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making)