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