Quote 92 | In music the passions enjoy themselves.
- Friedrich Nietzsche |
Quote 122 | If music be the food of love, play on.
- William Shakespeare |
Quote 261 | Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. |
Quote 351 | After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. |
Quote 365 | I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. |
Quote 381 | All music is beautiful.
- Billy Strayhorn |
Quote 445 | Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. |
Quote 474 | Music can change the world because it can change people. |
Quote 621 | 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. |
Quote 847 | Without music, life would be a mistake.
- Friedrich Nietzsche |
Quote 924 | 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 di... |
Quote 1064 | If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. |
Quote 1564 | Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. |
Quote 1800 | Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. |
Quote 1833 | Hell is full of musical amateurs.
- George Bernard Shaw |
Quote 2271 | If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. |
Quote 2326 | Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. |
Quote 3441 | I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a... |
Quote 3735 | Any good music must be an innovation.
- Les Baxter |
Quote 4534 | I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds. |
Quote 4571 | If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. |
Quote 6560 | One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. |
Quote 7639 | Music is the shorthand of emotion.
- Leo Tolstoy |
Quote 7829 | I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what... |
Quote 7978 | Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. |
Quote 7988 | No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. |
Quote 8140 | There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. |
Quote 8172 | 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 ... |
Quote 8199 | Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together. |
Quote 8207 | I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my frien... |
Quote 8322 | My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats. |
Quote 8375 | Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music. |
Quote 8505 | Music is love in search of a word.
- Sidney Lanier |
Quote 8558 | Music happens to be an art form that transcends language. |
Quote 8965 | Music is well said to be the speech of angels. |
Quote 9094 | Music should be your escape.
- Missy Elliot |
Quote 9142 | I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs. |
Quote 9264 | 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 every... |
Quote 9334 | Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable. |
Quote 9450 | Music is my religion.
- Jimi Hendrix |
Quote 9548 | I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force alre... |
Quote 9552 | Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. |
Quote 9566 | All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. |
Quote 9844 | The real art of conducting consists in transitions. |
Quote 9880 | You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works. |
Quote 10104 | Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. |
Quote 10112 | Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are. |
Quote 10168 | The wise musicians are those who play what they can master. |
Quote 10249 | Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. |
Quote 10270 | Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. |
Quote 10404 | Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. |
Quote 10427 | Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. |
Quote 10589 | Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoe... |
Quote 10599 | You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed? |
Quote 10702 | Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. |
Quote 10721 | It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that w... |
Quote 10926 | Music is the soul of language.
- Max Heindel |
Quote 11176 | He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
- Reba McEntire |
Quote 11182 | Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. |
Quote 11428 | When words leave off, music begins.
- Heinrich Heine |
Quote 11820 | Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. |
Quote 11827 | There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it. |
Quote 11950 | Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him. |
Quote 11959 | But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing. |
Quote 12042 | Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. |
Quote 12177 | My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power. |
Quote 12196 | There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrume... |
Quote 12263 | My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. |
Quote 12390 | It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a rep... |
Quote 12776 | Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. |
Quote 12820 | Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting. |
Quote 13210 | Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. |
Quote 13238 | Music is a performance and needs the audience. |
Quote 13259 | Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. |
Quote 13316 | Music is the best means we have of digesting time. |
Quote 13724 | The iPod completely changed the way people approach music. |
Quote 13757 | For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness. |
Quote 13789 | Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. |
Quote 13900 | I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play. |
Quote 13925 | You are the music while the music lasts.
- T. S. Eliot |