Music Quotes

Music is the strongest form of magic.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

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

When words leave off, music begins.

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

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 was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

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 already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

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

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Music is my religion.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

Every song is like a painting.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

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 friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

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

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.

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

You are the music while the music lasts.

The world's most famous and popular language is music.

Music is love in search of a word.

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

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

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.

I see music as fluid architecture.

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't think my fans need to be bothered with if I'm mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I'm making them happy with my show.

All music is beautiful.

If music be the food of love, play on.

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

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

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

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

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 repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

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

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

Where words fail, music speaks.

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

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 culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Any good music must be an innovation.

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

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

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

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.

Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

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

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.

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

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

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

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.

Music should be your escape.

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.

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.

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.

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

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.