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    Shakespeare quotes about classical music

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    Discover Shakespeare's incredible descriptions of music with these inspiring quotes.

    1. Shakespeare quotes about classical music

      1. Romeo and Juliet

      How silver-sweet sounds lovers' tongues by night. Like softest music to attending ears!

    2. Shakespeare quotes about classical music

      2. Antony and Cleopatra

      Give me some music; music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

    3. Shakespeare quotes about classical music

      3. The Merchant of Venice

      How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony.

    4. Shakespeare quotes about classical music

      4. Henry VIII

      Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing: To his music plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.

    5. Shakespeare quotes about classical music

      5. A Midsummer Night's Dream

      Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin’s back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid’s music.

    6. Shakespeare quotes about classical music

      6. Measure for Measure

      Music oft hath such a charm To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

    7. Shakespeare quotes about classical music

      7. The Tempest

      Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.

    8. Shakespeare quotes about classical music

      8. Hamlet

      Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass: and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you cannot play upon me.

    9. Shakespeare quotes about classical music

      9. As You Like It

      Play, music! And you, brides and bridegrooms all, With measure heap'd in joy, to the measures fall.

    10. Shakespeare quotes about classical music

      10. Twelfth Night

      If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O! it came o’er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.

    11. Shakespeare quotes about classical music

      11. Pericles

      Most heavenly music! It nips me unto listening, and thick slumber Hangs upon mine eyes.

    12. Shakespeare quotes about classical music

      12. Henry IV

      Let there be no noise made, my gentle friends; Unless some dull and favourable hand Will whisper music to my weary spirit.

    13. Shakespeare quotes about classical music

      13. Romeo and Juliet

      It is the lark that sings so out of tune. Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.

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