Top 50 Music Quotes -
Discover the phenomenonal complexity of music and reflect on the way it can positively influence your life with this sound collection of riveting quotes...
- "Music, the greatest
good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below."
-- Joseph Addison - "Music was my refuge.
I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to
loneliness."
--Maya Angelou - "Music is either good
or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance."
-- Louis Armstrong - "Music washes away
from the soul the dust of everyday life."
-- Berthold Auerbach - "The aim and final end
of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment
of the soul."
--Johann Sebastian Bach - "Music is the mediator
between the spiritual and the sensual life."
-- Ludwig van Beethoven - "Music - The one
incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends
mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."
-- Ludwig van Beethoven - "Music can change the
world. "
-- Ludwig Van Beethoven - "Music can name the
unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
-- Leonard Bernstein - "Music has to breathe
and sweat. You have to play it live. "
-- James Brown - "Music is well said to
be the speech of angels."
-- Thomas Carlyle - "All music comes from
God."
-- Johnny Cash - "If you learn music,
you'll learn most all there is to know. "
-- Edgar Cayce - "Music is nothing
separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically.
"
-- Ray Charles - "Good music is good no
matter what kind of music it is. "
-- Miles Davis - "There is no feeling,
except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in
music."
-- George Eliot - "You are the music
while the music lasts."
--T. S. Eliot - "We need magic, and
bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music
is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. "
-- Jerry Garcia - "Music is the language
of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing
strife."
-- Kahlil Gibran - "When people hear good
music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will
have."
-- Edgar Watson Howe - "Music expresses that
which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent."
-- Victor Hugo - "The history of a
people is found in its songs."
-- George Jellinek - "Music is the
vernacular of the human soul."
-- Geoffrey Latham - "It requires wisdom to
understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
-- Walter J. Lippmann - "Just as certain
selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional
layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind."
-- Hal A. Lingerman - "Music is the
harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world."
-- Giuseppe Mazzini - "Music is a beautiful
opiate, if you don't take it too seriously."
-- Henry Miller - "I started making
music because I could."
-- Alanis Morissette - "Music helps you find
the truths you must bring into the rest of your life. "
-- Alanis Morissette - "Music is spiritual.
The music business is not. "
-- Van Morrison - "Like everything else
in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its
sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony,
and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought."
-- Theodore Mungers - "Without music life
would be a mistake."
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - "In music the passions
enjoy themselves."
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - "Music is your own
experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't
come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But,
man, there's no boundary line to art."
-- Charlie Parker - "Music should be
something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside. "
-- Elvis Presley - "It's the music that
kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy. "
-- Lou Reed - "The music business
was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you
know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway."
-- Lionel Richie - "Music should never be
harmless."
-- Robbie Robertson - "Give me a laundry
list and I'll set it to music."
-- Gioacchino Antonio Rossini - "All music is
important if it comes from the heart. "
-- Carlos Santana - "Music is the key to
the female heart."
-- Johann G. Seume - "The best music... is
essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. "
-- Bruce Springsteen - "All I try to do is
write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion
behind it."
-- Bruce Springsteen - "In music one must
think with the heart and feel with the brain."
--George Szell - "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 - "For heights and
depths no words can reach, music is the soul's own speech."
--Unknown - "Most of us go to our
grave with our music still inside of us."
--Unknown - "I believe in the
power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing."
-- Eddie Vedder - "Music at its essence
is what gives us memories. "
-- Stevie Wonder - "There's a basic rule
which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't
know what it is. But I've got it."
-- Ron Wood