Music quotes
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
– Maya Angelou
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
– Albert Schweitzer
Where words fail, music speaks.
– Hans Christian Andersen
Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don’t understand the language that you’re singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.
– Lou Rawls
The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
– Roy Ayers
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
– Berthold Auerbach
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
– Leo Tolstoy
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation – what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
– William Lyon Phelps
Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
– A. J. McLean
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
– Plato
Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that’s being made all over the world.
– Damon Albarn
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
– Aldous Huxley
I lose myself in music because I can’t be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.
– Robert Smith
Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can’t do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
– Keith Richards
Music inflames temperament.
– Jim Morrison
I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.
– Kurt Cobain
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
– Walter Lippmann
Music is my religion.
– Jimi Hendrix
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
– Van Morrison
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
– Henry David Thoreau
A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
– Mel Brooks
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
– Victor Hugo
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
– Henny Youngman
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
I used to be followed by a moon shadow. Now I’m followed by all these misconceptions, and they’re like a ball and chain. I just want to write music from my heart and give people a message of hope and the search for a better place.
– Cat Stevens
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
– E. Y. Harburg
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 should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
– Ludwig van Beethoven
Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.
– Louis Armstrong
Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.
– Levon Helm
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
– Pythagoras
Music is a safe kind of high.
– Jimi Hendrix
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
– Martin Luther
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, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
– Frank Zappa
When you don’t have food in your life, just for a day, it makes you realise you’re lucky to have it the next day. So the day after fasting, the music that comes out will be very joyous.
– Chris Martin
Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I’m watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they’re painted, could be art. With music, you’re a little bit limited, of course, because it’s only audio.
– Frank Ocean
Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people felt like rock music was theirs, from Elvis to the Beatles to the Ramones to Nirvana. This was theirs; it wasn’t their parents’. I think hip-hop became the musical style that embraces that mentality.
– Chris Cornell
If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.
– Edgar Wright
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
– Eminem
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
– Elton John
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
– Adam Braun
Gospel music allows us to become closer to God and closer to each other.
– Marvin Sapp
We’re a bit flashy, but the music’s not one big noise.
– Freddie Mercury
Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.
– Judith Viorst
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
– Diogenes
Feelings aroused by the touch of someone’s hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
– Bernie Siegel
Mathematics is the music of reason.
– James Joseph Sylvester
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
– Ronald Reagan
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
– Edith Sitwell
Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there’s music in the air there.
– Bruno Mars
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
– Bob Marley
Without music, life would be a mistake.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
If music be the food of love, play on.
– William Shakespeare
Music can change the world because it can change people.
– Bono
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
– Bob Marley
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
– Jean Paul
I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.
– Christopher Lee
I had no interest in music. But now, music means everything to me. I have no words to explain how beautiful music is. It is where you can create everything, like beautiful songs to sad songs to almost anything.
– Alan Walker
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
– William Wordsworth
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
– John Keats
Music is the emotional life of most people.
– Leonard Cohen
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
– Joan Miro