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