MUSIC QUOTES
“Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.” ~ Stevie Wonder
“Music should be your escape.” ~ Missy Elliot
“Those who wish to sing always find a song.” ~ Unknown
“Do it again on the next verse and people think you meant it.” ~ Chet Atkins
“A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.” ~ Dmitri Shostakovich
“If you’ve lost your faith in love and music, then the end won’t be long.” ~ Pete Doherty
“Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.” ~ Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
“Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
“In memory everything seems to happen to music.” ~ Tennessee Williams
“Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning, there is mystery; in the end, there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.” ~ Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
“If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin’ words.” ~ Dolly Parton
“I believe that a person’s taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know.” ~ Leila Sales
“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people, and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.” ~ Dave Grohl
“My ambition was to live like music.” ~ Mary Gaitskill
“Music comes to me more readily than words.” ~ Ludwig van Beethoven
“Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.” ~ Aretha Franklin
“Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.” ~ Martin Luther
“Music should be an essential part of every analysis.” ~ Carl Jung
“I’ve found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.” ~ Bryce W. Anderson
“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.” ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
“If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.” ~ Richard Nixon
“My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.” ~ Jimi Hendrix
“I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.” ~ Criss Jami
“Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.” ~ Eddie Van Halen
“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.” ~ Maya Angelou
“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.” ~ Frank Zappa
“Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” ~ Leonard Bernstein
“Philosophy is the highest music.” ~ Plato
“Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you, or it doesn’t.” ~ Gene Simmons
“Or music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts.” ~ T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
“I adore art… when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.” ~ Guiseppe Verdi
“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” ~ Confucius
“Music isn’t just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It’s a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it’s joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven.” ~ Orson Scott Card
“Music gives color to the air of the moment.” ~ Karl Lagerfeld
“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” ~ Robert Fripp
“I’ve always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.” ~ Kenny Rogers
“Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.” ~ Keith Richards
“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.” ~ Thomas Fuller
“Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.” ~ Nina Simone
“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Music doesn’t get in. Music is already in. Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn’t necessarily know you had inside you, and runs around waking them all up. A rebirth of sorts.” ~ Matt Haig, How to Stop Time
“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.” ~ Frank Zappa
“Where words leave off, music begins.” ~ Heinrich Heine
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
“Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
“Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.” ~ Alex Gaskarth
“Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.” ~ Joshua Logan
“Music is life itself.” ~ Louis Armstrong
“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ~ Berthold Auerbach
“Music is the emotional life of most people.” ~ Leonard Cohen
“I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.” ~ Igor Stravinsky
“Life and love go on, let the music play.” ~ Johnny Cash
“Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.” ~ Shania Twain
“Music fills the infinite between two souls.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
“Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.” ~ Claude Debussy
“Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.” ~ Aaron Copland
“Once again, she was free. Once again, she found peace. It was music that freed her soul from the dungeon of her mind.” ~ Wiss Auguste
“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times and to the latest.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.” ~ Haruki Murakami
“A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn’t.” ~ Mark Twain
“Music is the soundtrack of your life.” ~ Dick Clark
“Music is very spiritual; it has the power to bring people together.” ~ Edgar Winter
“Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be
the universe.” ~ Douglas Adams
“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.” -Martin Luther ~
“There is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.” ~ Edward Elgar
“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” ~ Albert Einstein
“Some days, there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.” ~ Emory Austin
“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.” ~ Edith Sitwell
“Music can change the world.” ~ Ludwig van Beethoven
“Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.” ~ Ray Charles
“To play without passion is inexcusable!” ~ Ludwig van Beethoven
“Love is friendship set to music.” ~ Jackson Pollock
“Wagner's music is better than it sounds.” ~ Mark Twain
“A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.” ~ Colbie Caillat
“Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.” ~ Hans Christian Andersen
“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“Music ~ what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!” ~ Maria August von Trapp
“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.” ~ George Eliot
“You have to, take a deep breath. And allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play, allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.” ~ Kelly White
“Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.” ~ John Milton
“Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.” ~ Maria von Trapp
“The world’s most famous and popular language is music.” ~ PSY
“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.” ~ Elton John
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.” ~ John Keats
“He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that’s what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.” ~ Hannah Harrington, Saving June
“Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on
everything and anything else can have in common.” ~ Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
“People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It’s like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.” ~ Michael Jackson
“The only truth is music.” ~ Jack Kerouac
“Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.” ~ Jason Mraz
“Music expresses the inexpressible, about which one cannot keep silent.” ~ Victor Hugo
“Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch.” ~ Debasish Mridha
“The only love affair I have ever had was with music.” ~ Maurice Ravel
“Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.” ~ Steve Maraboli
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ~ Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name
“As long as we live, there is never enough singing.” ~ Martin Luther
“Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you.” ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Phantom of the Opera
“Music could ache and hurt; that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.” ~ Pat Conroy
“The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the
musicians, are the messengers.” ~ Roy Ayers
“Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.” ~ Billy Sheehan
“A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?” ~ Charles Ives
“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” ~ Aaron Copland
“The best music is essentially there to provide you something to
face the world with.” ~ Bruce Springsteen
“Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?” ~ Goldie Hawn
“The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.” ~ W.H. Auden
“Nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine as music. It brings us near to the infinite.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
“Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.” ~ Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.” ~ Martin Luther
“If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.” ~ Sydney Smith
“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.” ~ J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” ~ Lao Tzu
“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” ~ Leopold Stokowski
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” ~ Plato
“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” ~ Pablo Casals
“Music is the strongest form of magic.” ~ Marilyn Manson
“We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.” ~ Eddie Van Halen
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ~ Aldous Huxley
“Music is the universal language of mankind.” ~ Henry Longfellow
“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.” ~ Alphonse de Lamartine
“If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they’d be.” ~ Lauren Myracle, Shine
“When you’re happy, you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics.” ~ Frank Ocean
“If music is a Place ~ then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.” ~ Vera Nazarian
“Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.” ~ John Erskine
“Can a mere song change a people’s minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart, and the heart may change your mind.” ~ Elvis Costello
“For me, there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.” ~ Eric Clapton
“Music … is the only real religion that is worth devoting your soul to. It is the last remnant of the primal scream, the funeral dirge and the wedding march. It is the light that keeps me out of the shadows, and it is the reason my immortal soul is not in dire straits.” ~ Corey Taylor, Seven Deadly Sins
“To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts ~ such is the duty of the artist.” ~ Robert Schumann
“If a composer could say what he had to say in words, he would not bother trying to say it in music.” ~ Gustav Mahler
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” ~ Bob Marley
“Music is my religion.” ~ Jimi Hendrix
“I’ve always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.” ~ John Barrowman
“If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.” ~ Louis Armstrong
“Music is a safe kind of high.” ~ Jimi Hendrix
“He who sings frightens away his ills.” ~ Miguel de Cervantes
“Without music, life would be a blank to me.” ~ Jane Austen, Emma
“Music is my higher power” ~ Oliver James
“Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.” ~ Franz Liszt
“Music is an outburst of the soul.” ~ Frederick Delius
“Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.” ~ Charles Darwin
“Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.” ~ Dimebag Darrell
“I’m just a musical prostitute, my dear.” ~ Freddie Mercury
“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life~music and cats.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
“Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.” ~ Billy Joel
“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.” ~ Martin Luther
“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.” ~ Tom Waits
“Music can change the world because it can change people.” ~ Bono
“The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.” ~ Duke Ellington
“Country music is three chords and the truth.” ~ Harlan Howard
“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.” ~ Anna Akhmatova
“Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.” ~ George Eliot
“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: ‘The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.'” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
“Even if you can’t sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.” ~ Rebbe Nachman
“We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” ~ Arthur O’Shaughnessy
“How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?” ~ Jane Swan
“The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.” ~ Pete Seeger
“Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.” ~ Elie Wiesel
“If I cannot fly, let me sing.” ~ Stephen Sondheim
“Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.” ~ Modest Mouse
“Music replays the past memories, awakens our forgotten worlds and makes our minds travel.” ~ Michael Bassey Johnson
“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit and never dies.” ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
“Music comes from a place we don’t know.” ~ Chris Martin
“Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
“I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.” ~ William James
“Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.” ~ David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories
“The more you love music, the more music you love.” ~ Tom Moon, 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die
“Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.” ~ Marcel Marceau
“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.” ~ Charlie Parker
“Some people have lives; some people have music.” ~ John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“Music is love in search of a word.” ~ Sidney Lanier
“The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.” ~ Erik Satie
“When we listen to music, we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.” ~ Alan Watts
“Wake up, live your life and sing the melody of your soul.” ~ Amit Ray
“I merely took the energy it takes to pour and wrote some blues.” ~ Duke Ellington
“Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.” ~ Paul Simon
“Without music, life would be a mistake.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
“If music be the food of love, play on.” ~ William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
“People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.” ~ Taylor Swift
“Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvelous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.” ~ Frédéric Chopin
“Music is the tool to express life~and all that makes a difference.” ~ Herbie Hancock
“Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all.” ~ Josh Homme
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