William Shakespeare Quotes About Music

• If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Food, Unrequited Love

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

• If music be the food of love, play on.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

• There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Wisdom, Prayer

• The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Sweet, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 79

• Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Men, Sheep

  "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works".

• Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, after his studies or his usual pain?

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Pain, Men

  1593 Lucentio to Hortensio.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 3, sc.1, l.9-12.

• How soar sweet music is, when time is broke, and no proportion kept!

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Sweet, Broke

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.258

• In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Sweet, Art

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 1, l. 3

• The man that hath no music in himself

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Philosophical, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 79

• I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Sweet, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 69

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