MUSIC QUOTES
“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.” ~ George Eliot
“Philosophy is the highest music.” ~ Plato
“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
“Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.” ~ Elie Wiesel
“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
“I merely took the energy it takes to pour and wrote some blues.” ~ Duke Ellington
“Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you, or it doesn’t.” ~ Gene Simmons
“Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.” ~ John Erskine
“My ambition was to live like music.” ~ Mary Gaitskill
“Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all.” ~ Josh Homme
“Life and love go on, let the music play.” ~ Johnny Cash
“Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
“He who sings frightens away his ills.” ~ Miguel de Cervantes
“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
“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
“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
“The world’s most famous and popular language is music.” ~ PSY
“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 well said to be the speech of angels.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
“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
“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, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit and never dies.” ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
“In memory everything seems to happen to music.” ~ Tennessee Williams
“Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.” ~ Jason Mraz
“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.” ~ Anna Akhmatova
“Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.” ~ Joshua Logan
“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
“Love is friendship set to music.” ~ Jackson Pollock
“Music ~ what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!” ~ Maria August von Trapp
“Music is love in search of a word.” ~ Sidney Lanier
“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
“Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.” ~ Hans Christian Andersen
“Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?” ~ Goldie Hawn
“I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.” ~ Criss Jami
“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
“The only love affair I have ever had was with music.” ~ Maurice Ravel
“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life~music and cats.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.” ~ Frank Zappa
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ~ Aldous Huxley
“Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” ~ Leonard Bernstein
“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.” ~ Martin Luther
“To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts ~ such is the duty of the artist.” ~ Robert Schumann
“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
“My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.” ~ Jimi Hendrix
“Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.” ~ John Milton
“Music can change the world.” ~ Ludwig van Beethoven
“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” ~ Robert Fripp
“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.” ~ Thomas Fuller
“The more you love music, the more music you love.” ~ Tom Moon, 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die
“Without music, life would be a blank to me.” ~ Jane Austen, Emma
“I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.” ~ Igor Stravinsky
“The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.” ~ Duke Ellington
“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.” ~ Edith Sitwell
“Country music is three chords and the truth.” ~ Harlan Howard
“If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin’ words.” ~ Dolly Parton
“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
“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.” ~ J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.” ~ Tom Waits
“Some days, there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.” ~ Emory Austin
“Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.” ~ Claude Debussy
“If you’ve lost your faith in love and music, then the end won’t be long.” ~ Pete Doherty
“Where words leave off, music begins.” ~ Heinrich Heine
“Music is the emotional life of most people.” ~ Leonard Cohen
“Music comes from a place we don’t know.” ~ Chris Martin
“Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.” ~ Alex Gaskarth
“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
“Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.” ~ Franz Liszt
“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
“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.” ~ Elton John
“I’ve found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.” ~ Bryce W. Anderson
“Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.” ~ Ray Charles
“Music fills the infinite between two souls.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
“Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.” ~ Nina Simone
“Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.” ~ Shania Twain
“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 is the soundtrack of your life.” ~ Dick Clark
“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 is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” ~ Pablo Casals
“Music should be your escape.” ~ Missy Elliot
“Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you.” ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Phantom of the Opera
“Music should be an essential part of every analysis.” ~ Carl Jung
“Wake up, live your life and sing the melody of your soul.” ~ Amit Ray
“We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.” ~ Eddie Van Halen
“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
“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
“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 in the soul can be heard by the universe.” ~ Lao Tzu
“Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.” ~ Martin Luther
“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” ~ Leopold Stokowski
“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 literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.” ~ Alphonse de Lamartine
“Without music, life would be a mistake.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
“The best music is essentially there to provide you something to
face the world with.” ~ Bruce Springsteen
“The only truth is music.” ~ Jack Kerouac
“Music is a safe kind of high.” ~ Jimi Hendrix
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
“Music is very spiritual; it has the power to bring people together.” ~ Edgar Winter
“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
“Wagner's music is better than it sounds.” ~ Mark Twain
“A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.” ~ Dmitri Shostakovich
“Music is my higher power” ~ Oliver James
“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
“If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they’d be.” ~ Lauren Myracle, Shine
“To play without passion is inexcusable!” ~ Ludwig van Beethoven
“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.” -Martin Luther ~
“Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.” ~ David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories
“Music is the universal language of mankind.” ~ Henry Longfellow
“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
“Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch.” ~ Debasish Mridha
“The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.” ~ Erik Satie
“The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.” ~ W.H. Auden
“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
“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
“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
“If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.” ~ Richard Nixon
“Do it again on the next verse and people think you meant it.” ~ Chet Atkins
“I’ve always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.” ~ John Barrowman
“Music could ache and hurt; that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.” ~ Pat Conroy
“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
“Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.” ~ Billy Joel
“Even if you can’t sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.” ~ Rebbe Nachman
“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
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” ~ Bob Marley
“I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.” ~ William James
“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ~ Berthold Auerbach
“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
“We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” ~ Arthur O’Shaughnessy
“Music replays the past memories, awakens our forgotten worlds and makes our minds travel.” ~ Michael Bassey Johnson
“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
“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Music gives color to the air of the moment.” ~ Karl Lagerfeld
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.” ~ John Keats
“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” ~ Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
“Music comes to me more readily than words.” ~ Ludwig van Beethoven
“How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?” ~ Jane Swan
“Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.” ~ Modest Mouse
“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.” ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
“I’m just a musical prostitute, my dear.” ~ Freddie Mercury
“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
“A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn’t.” ~ Mark Twain
“I’ve always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.” ~ Kenny Rogers
“Those who wish to sing always find a song.” ~ Unknown
“Some people have lives; some people have music.” ~ John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“If I cannot fly, let me sing.” ~ Stephen Sondheim
“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
“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.” ~ Maya Angelou
“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“When you’re happy, you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics.” ~ Frank Ocean
“Music expresses the inexpressible, about which one cannot keep silent.” ~ Victor Hugo
“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.” ~ Martin Luther
“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
“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” ~ Confucius
“Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.” ~ George Eliot
“Music is life itself.” ~ Louis Armstrong
“Music is an outburst of the soul.” ~ Frederick Delius
“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
“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” ~ Aaron Copland
“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“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
“A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.” ~ Colbie Caillat
“If music be the food of love, play on.” ~ William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
“If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.” ~ Louis Armstrong
“Music can change the world because it can change people.” ~ Bono
“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.” ~ Frank Zappa
“Music is the tool to express life~and all that makes a difference.” ~ Herbie Hancock
“Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
“People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.” ~ Taylor Swift
“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
“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 my religion.” ~ Jimi Hendrix
“Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.” ~ Billy Sheehan
“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 forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.” ~ Paul Simon
“Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.” ~ Maria von Trapp
“Music is the strongest form of magic.” ~ Marilyn Manson
“Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.” ~ Marcel Marceau
“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
“As long as we live, there is never enough singing.” ~ Martin Luther
“If a composer could say what he had to say in words, he would not bother trying to say it in music.” ~ Gustav Mahler
“Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.” ~ Haruki Murakami
“The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.” ~ Pete Seeger
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