Music Quotes
"We are the music makers. We are the dreamer of dreams."
Willy Wonka
"Celery raw develops the jaw, while celery stewed is quietly chewed."
Anonymous (fave of K.P.)
``Music is a refuge for everyone who thinks in rhyme, walks in rhyme and dreams of melody.''
Steven Tyler during his acceptance speech for Honorary Doctorate in Music
"I sound my barbaric "Yawp!" over the rooftops of the world!" - Walt Whitman
Famous Quotes by and about Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
"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
"Since the best man could not be obtained, mediocre ones would have to be accepted." -- Leipzig mayor Abraham Platz, 1723, commenting on appointing Bach as the Cantor of St Thomas School, Leipzig, when Graupner refused the post (Graupner is a now long-forgotten minor musician); quoted in Werner Neuman, Bach (1961)
"The immortal god of harmony." -- Ludwig van Beethoven, 1801
"Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint." -- Thomas Beecham, quoted by Neville Cardus in the Guardian, 1971
"You play Bach your way and I'll play him his way." -- Wanda Landowska