Famous Quotes

"Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."

William Congreve 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 William Congreve

• "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."

• "Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight."

• "Beauty is the lover's gift."

• "There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire."

• "Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass."