Music — A Book of Quotations
MINI REVIEW: A Collection of Witty Advice and Serious Contemplations of Music
More than 400 quotes from authors, composers, entertainers, musicians, politicians, scientists, singers and others offer entertaining reading and different perspectives on the art of music.
Music — A Book of Quotations
(Paperback Edition)
Edited by Herb Galewitz, Music — A Book of Quotations is one fun little book! More than 400 quotes about music pack this 57-page paperback, part of the excellent Dover Thrift Editions series.
The book has quotes from all sorts of people, including authors, composers, entertainers, musicians, politicians, scientists, singers, and others, and covers classical music, jazz and opera. Some of my favorites:
- “Music is to the mind as air to the body.”
- Plato
- “The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.”
- Igor Stravinsky
- “Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.”
- Bill Nye
Lots of variety, thoughts on music from all angles, and a pretty good deal considering it costs just a couple bucks.
Product Information
- Publisher: Dover Publications
- Copyright: © 2001
- ISBN 10: 0486415961
- ISBN 13: 9780486415963
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More Quotes from the Book
- “The Fiddle: An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse’s tail on the entrails of a cat.”
- Ambrose Bierce
- “Musical comedy is the Irish stew of drama. Anything may be put into it, with the certainty that it will improve the general effect.”
- P.G. Wodehouse
- “Donny Osmond has van Gogh’s ear for music.”
- Orson Welles
- “I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.”
- Elvis Presley
- “Music, of all the arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and the legislator ought to give it the greatest encouragement.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- “Life can’t be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.”
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
