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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
Dan Rather (1931 - )

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley

Only sick music makes money today.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Der Fall Wagner, Section 5

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

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.
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot (1819 - 1880), The Mill on the Floss, 1860

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey

My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971), In Observer 8 Oct. 1961

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997