The Story of Music Quotes

“This is music's most spectacular conjuring trick. Far from dying, it is in a perpetual state of rebirth.”
― Howard Goodall, The Story of Music

“...music, when all is said and done, is a unity, and the divisions we placed between periods and categories are often artificial.”
― Howard Goodall, The Story of Music

“This was Beethoven’s great significance, not through form or musical language, but in recalibrating what music was for. Single-handedly he turned it from genteel, ignorable after-dinner entertainment into an all-encompassing emotional experience, a way of perceiving life as a mighty struggle, the cry of the soul, the voice of conscience”
― Howard Goodall, The Story of Music: From Babylon to the Beatles: How Music Has Shaped Civilization