Famous Quotes

"Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on Music

More quotes about Music

• "One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."

  Bob Marley on Music

• "If music be the food of love, play on."

  William Shakespeare on Music

• "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

  Plato on Music

• "Without music, life would be a mistake."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Music

• "I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water."

  Ray Charles on Music

More quotes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• "One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance."

• "When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly."

• "I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness."

• "It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion."

• "I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness."