Musical Delight Quotes

To hear the Treorchy Male Choir in full throat is one of the great joys of choral music.

I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day.

[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements.

There's nothing - nothing - like the magic of playing music.

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.

To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

I love it when people write rapturously about music they love.

To play opera, to play Wagner, it's a great joy.

There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down. It brings out the child in all of us.

Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music.

It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.