George Santayana on Art / Music
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
George Eliot on Art / Music
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
Friedrich Nietzsche on Art / Music
Only sick music makes money today.
Aldous Huxley on Art / Music
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Francois Cavanna on Art / Music
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
Groucho Marx on Art / Music
Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you
Igor Stravinsky on Art / Music
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
Johann Sebastian Bach on Art / Music
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.
Michel de Montaigne on Art / Music
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.
George Bernard Shaw on Art / Music
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.