MUSIC QUOTES

“I’m just a musical prostitute, my dear.” ~ Freddie Mercury

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” ~ Lao Tzu

“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

“Where words fail, music speaks.” ~ Hans Christian Andersen

“Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.” ~ George Eliot

“Music comes to me more readily than words.” ~ Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” ~ Plato

“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

“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

“The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.” ~ Pete Seeger

“Life and love go on, let the music play.” ~ Johnny Cash

“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

“Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician’s curse.” ~ Patrick Rothfuss

“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

“How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?” ~ Jane Swan

“People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.” ~ Taylor Swift

“Do it again on the next verse and people think you meant it.” ~ Chet Atkins

“The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.” ~ Roy Ayers

“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.” ~ Duke Ellington

“I’ve found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.” ~ Bryce W. Anderson

“Music is the soundtrack of your life.” ~ Dick Clark

“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.” ~ Alphonse de Lamartine

“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.” ~ Johnny Depp

“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ~ Berthold Auerbach

“Music comes from a place we don’t know.” ~ Chris Martin

“Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.” ~ Hans Christian Andersen

“Even if you can’t sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.” ~ Rebbe Nachman

“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.” ~ Tom Waits

“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.” ~ Elton John

“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

“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 the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” ~ Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Music fills the infinite between two souls.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

“Those who wish to sing always find a song.” ~ Unknown

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” ~ Leopold Stokowski

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life~music and cats.” ~ Albert Schweitzer

“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

“Music expresses the inexpressible, about which one cannot keep silent.” ~ Victor Hugo

“Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.” ~ David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories

“Music should be an essential part of every analysis.” ~ Carl Jung

“Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.” ~ Billy Sheehan

“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

“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit and never dies.” ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“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 is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

“Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.” ~ John Milton

“My ambition was to live like music.” ~ Mary Gaitskill

“Some days, there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.” ~ Emory Austin

“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 can change the world.” ~ Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.” ~ Modest Mouse

“As long as we live, there is never enough singing.” ~ Martin Luther

“Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.” ~ Alex Gaskarth

“Words make you think. music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.” ~ Yip Harburg

“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

“To play without passion is inexcusable!” ~ Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music could ache and hurt; that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.” ~ Pat Conroy

“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

“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” ~ Pablo Casals

“Music is the emotional life of most people.” ~ Leonard Cohen

“The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.” ~ Bruce Springsteen

“Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.” ~ Maria von Trapp

“The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.” ~ Duke Ellington

“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

“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

“Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.” ~ Marcel Marceau

“If music be the food of love, play on.” ~ William Shakespeare

“Love is friendship set to music.” ~ Jackson Pollock

“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 forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.” ~ Paul Simon

“A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn’t.” ~ Mark Twain

“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.” ~ Martin Luther

“Music replays the past memories, awakens our forgotten worlds and makes our minds travel.” ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

“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 not take it or leave it; music is life or death!” ~ Joss Stirling, Finding Sky

“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

“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

“The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.” ~ Erik Satie

“My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.” ~ Jimi Hendrix

“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.” ~ Anna Akhmatova

“Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?” ~ Goldie Hawn

“Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.” ~ John Erskine

“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.” ~ Elton John

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ~ Aldous Huxley

“Where words leave off, music begins.” ~ Heinrich Heine

“Music is the shorthand of emotion.” ~ Leo Tolstoy

“Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.” ~ Shania Twain

“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.” ~ Martin Luther

“Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” ~ Leonard Bernstein

“Music is the universal language of mankind.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” ~ Arthur O’Shaughnessy

“My music isn’t just music ~ its medicine.” ~ Kanye West

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.” ~ John Keats

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” ~ Leopold Stokowski

“If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they’d be.” ~ Lauren Myracle, Shine

“To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts ~ such is the duty of the artist.” ~ Robert Schumann

“Music gives color to the air of the moment.” ~ Karl Lagerfeld

“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.” ~ Frank Zappa

“The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.” ~ Pete Seeger

“Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you, or it doesn’t.” ~ Gene Simmons

“My music isn’t just music~it’s medicine.” ~ Kanye West

“Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.” ~ Jason Mraz

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” ~ Bob Marley

“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

“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

“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

“Without music, life would be a mistake.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“You can cage the singer but not the song.” ~ Harry Belafonte

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” ~ Plato

“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The only truth is music.” ~ Jack Kerouac

“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” ~ Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

“Music is love in search of a word.” ~ Sidney Lanier

“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 brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.” ~ Haruki Murakami

“If a composer could say what he had to say in words, he would not bother trying to say it in music.” ~ Gustav Mahler

“Wagner's music is better than it sounds.” ~ Mark Twain

“Music is life itself.” ~ Louis Armstrong

“If I cannot fly, let me sing.” ~ Stephen Sondheim

“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.” ~ Thomas Fuller

“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.” ~ Elton John

“Music is the strongest form of magic.” ~ Marilyn Manson

“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

“Music is a safe kind of high.” ~ Jimi Hendrix

“Some people have lives; some people have music.” ~ John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.” ~ Edith Sitwell

“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.” ~ Robert G. Ingersoll

“Music is healing. Music holds things together.” ~ Prince

“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

“Without music, life would be a blank to me.” ~ Jane Austen

“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

“If you’ve lost your faith in love and music, then the end won’t be long.” ~ Pete Doherty

“In memory everything seems to happen to music.” ~ Tennessee Williams

“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

“The more you love music, the more music you love.” ~ Tom Moon, 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die

“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 produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” ~ Confucius

“Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.” ~ Ray Charles

“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

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” ~ Bob Marley

“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

“Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch.” ~ Debasish Mridha

“Music is life itself.” ~ Louis Armstrong

“Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.” ~ Jason Mraz

“A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.” ~ Dmitri Shostakovich

“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

“We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.” ~ Eddie Van Halen

“Music is an outburst of the soul.” ~ Frederick Delius

“He who sings frightens away his ills.” ~ Miguel de Cervantes

“The more you love music, the more music you love.” ~ Tom Moon

“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

“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

“If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.” ~ Richard Nixon

“Music is very spiritual; it has the power to bring people together.” ~ Edgar Winter

“Music can change the world because it can change people.” ~ Bono

“If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin’ words.” ~ Dolly Parton

“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

“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

“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” ~ Aaron Copland

“Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.” ~ Billy Joel

“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.” ~ Thomas Fuller

“Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.” ~ Claude Debussy

“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” ~ Robert Fripp

“music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.” ~ Elie Wiesel

“If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.” ~ Louis Armstrong

“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.” ~ George Eliot

“Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you.” ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Phantom of the Opera

“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

“When you’re happy, you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics.” ~ Frank Ocean

“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 cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.” ~ J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Music is the shorthand of emotion.” ~ Leo Tolstoy

“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

“I’ve always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.” ~ Kenny Rogers