The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - [Music]

Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.
~ Tipper Gore - [Music]

I know only two tunes. One them is ''Yankee Doodle'' and the other isn't.
~ Ulysses S. Grant - [Music]

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.
~ W. Somerset Maugham - [Youth]

The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.
~ Henry Miller - [Youth]

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
~ John Milton - [Youth]

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - [Youth]

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
~ Bill Nye - [Music]

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.
~ Vance Packard - [Music]

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
~ Charlie Parker - [Music]

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
~ Walter Pater - [Music]

You don't need any brains to listen to music.
~ Luciano Pavarotti - [Music]

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
~ Samuel Pepys - [Music]

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
~ Plato - [Music]

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
~ Plato - [Music]

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
~ Plutarch - [Music]

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.
~ Ezra Pound - [Music]

There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, ''It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.''
~ Ezra Pound - [Music]

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
~ Elvis Presley - [Music]