Instruments/music

Famous quotes containing the words instruments and/or music:

“The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden.... Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.”
—Octave Mirbeau (1850–1917)

“Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)