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If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Twelfth Night (1601), Act I, scene i.In context
- Love
Music makes one feel so romantic⁠—at least it always gets on one’s nerves⁠—which is the same thing nowadays.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
- Love
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
?UnattributedOften credited to Steve Martin
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Twilight of the Idols (1889), “Maxims and Arrows,” § 1.33
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Music at Night and Other Essays (1931), “The Rest is Silence”
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo1802–1885William Shakespeare (1864), Part I, Book II, Chapter IV
There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers.
Seth Greenborn 1974
Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.
Dave Barryborn 1947
- Dancing
- Dave Barry
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
- Dancing
Nowadays what isn’t worth saying is sung.
Pierre Beaumarchais1732–1799Often credited to Voltaire
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Bill Cosbyborn 1937
Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
No sane man will dance.
Cicero107–43 BC
- Dancing
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931