Literature Quotes about Music

Quotes about Music from Literature

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
- Victor Hugo

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
- Albert Schweitzer

“Where words fail, music speaks.”
- Hans Christian Andersen

“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”

- Jane Austen

"If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk"

- Oscar Wilde

"She looks just as music sounds" 

- L. M. Montgomery 

“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”

- Leo Tolstoy 

“Ah, music,” he said, wiping his eyes. “A magic beyond all we do here!”
- J.K. Rowling 
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
- Roald Dahl
“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”
- J M Barrie
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