Music Quotes

• Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

  Laurie Anderson

• Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  Berthold Auerbach

• Any good music must be an innovation.

  Les Baxter

• Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

• Music can change the world because it can change people.

  Bono

• Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

  Robert Browning

• You are the music while the music lasts.

  T. S. Eliot

• Music should be your escape.

  Missy Elliot

• Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

  Bryan Ferry

• You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

  Bryan Ferry

• I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

  Dizzy Gillespie

• Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

  Jimi Hendrix

• Music is my religion.

  Jimi Hendrix

• Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

  Kin Hubbard

• After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

  Aldous Huxley

• I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

  B. B. King

• The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

  Karl Lagerfeld

• Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

  John Lennon

• One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

  Bob Marley

• You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

  Van Morrison

• In music the passions enjoy themselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• Without music, life would be a mistake.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

  Richard M. Nixon

• Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

  Maya Angelou

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  W. H. Auden

• No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

  W. H. Auden

• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

  Benjamin Britten

• If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

  Thomas Carlyle

• Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

  Thomas Carlyle

• Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

  William Congreve

• Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

  Howard Dietz

• Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

  Thomas Fuller

• Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

  Herbie Hancock

• Music is the soul of language.

  Max Heindel

• When words leave off, music begins.

  Heinrich Heine

• Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

  Victor Hugo

• If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

  Sidney Lanier

• Music is love in search of a word.

  Sidney Lanier

• Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

  Sidney Lanier

• 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 a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

  Plato

• Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

  Plato

• Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

  Jean Paul

• I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

  Elvis Presley

• If music be the food of love, play on.

  William Shakespeare

• Hell is full of musical amateurs.

  George Bernard Shaw

• Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

  Isaac Stern

• Music is a performance and needs the audience.

  Michael Tippett

• Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

  Lao Tzu

• Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

  Frank Zappa

• There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

  Frank Zappa

• The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

  Andres Segovia

• All music is beautiful.

  Billy Strayhorn

• Music is the shorthand of emotion.

  Leo Tolstoy

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