Famous Quotes

"From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else."

John Philip Sousa 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 John Philip Sousa

• "Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty."

• "Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music."

• "My religion lies in my composition."

• "I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect."

• "I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher."