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Famous Music Quotes
- “Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.” ― Ludwig van Beethoven
- “Without music, life would be a mistake” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
- “I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.” ― Morrissey
- “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” ― Plato
- “How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?” ― Jane Swan
- “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” ― Albert Einstein
- “Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.” ― Keith Richards
- “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.” ― Billy Joel ,Music quotes about healing
- “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” ― Bob Marley
- “The only truth is music.” ― Jack Kerouac
- “There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” ― Albert Schweitzer
- “Without music, life would be a blank to me.”― Jane Austen
- “If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.” ― William Shakespeare
- “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ― Maya Angelou
- “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ― Aldous Huxley
- “The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.” ― W.H. Auden
- “Do you know people who insist they like ‘all kinds of music’That actually means they like no kinds of music.” – Chuck Klosterman
- “We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.” – Hazrat Inayat Khan
- “Music is life! It’s physical emotion – you can touch it! It’s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for your ears to swallow.” – Isaac Marion
- “Music is the universal language of mankind.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “For me, there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.” – Eric Clapton
- “Where words fail, music speaks.” ― Hans Christian Andersen
- “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” ― Victor Hugo
- “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” ― Arthur O’Shaughnessy
- “If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”― Charles Darwin
- “Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy” ― Ludwig van Beethoven
- “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.” ― Modest Mouse
- “Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.” ― Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- “Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
- “A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” ― Leopold Stokowski
- “I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.” ― Tom Waits
- “When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you’re writing about at the time. ” ― Lady Gaga
- “Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.” ― Robert Browning - “I think wherever you go, when people hear good music, they will react to it.” – Wiz Khalifa
- “You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.” – David Byrne
- “My music is best understood by children and animals.” – Igor Stravinsky
- “Music enriches people’s lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.” – Victoria Wood
- “If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.” ― John Lennon
- “Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.” ― Steve Maraboli
- “Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.” ― Frank Zappa
- “Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.” ― Alphonse de Lamartine
- “Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe.” ― Douglas Adams
- “The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- “Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.”― Oscar Wilde
- “Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.” ― Frank Zappa
- “If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
- “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.” ― Kahlil Gibran
- “Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” ― Lao Tzu
- “Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.” ― Maria Augusta von Trapp
- “Music… will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- “My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.” ― Edith Sitwell
- “Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.” ― Sarah Dessen
- “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” ― Confucius
- “Music is my higher power” ― Oliver James
- “For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.” ― Lois Lowry
- “It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.” ― George Eliot
- “Tell me what you listen to, and I’ll tell you who you are.” ― Tiffanie DeBartolo
- “My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.” ― Martin Luther
- “No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
- “Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.” ― George Eliot
- “It’s never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.” – Sivamani
- “A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.” – Mel Brooks
- “The market didn’t define the music; the music defined the market.” – Charlie Hunter
- “If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.” – Richard M. Nixon
- “Music is everybody’s business. It’s only the publishers who think people own it” ― John Lennon
- “You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.” ― Kelly White
- “Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.” ― Johann Sebastian Bach
- “Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.” ― Patrick Rothfuss
- “People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It’s like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.” ― Michael Jackson
- “The more you love, the more love you have to give.It’s the only feeling we have which is infinite…” ― Christina Westover
- “Music can change the world because it can change people.” ― Bono
- “If music be the food of love, play on.” ― William Shakespeare ,Music quotes about love
- “I see my life in terms of music.” ― Albert Einstein
- “To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the words make.” ― Truman Capote
- “Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.” ― Plato
- “Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.” ― Pat Conroy
- “Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.” ― G.K. Chesterton
- “I’m just a musical prostitute, my dear.” ― Freddie Mercury
- “If I cannot fly, let me sing.” ― Stephen Sondheim
- “All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.” ― Frank Zappa
- “Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician’s curse.” ― Patrick Rothfuss
- “Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.” ― Lauren Oliver
- “If Music is a Place — then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.” ― Vera Nazarian
- “I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it’s almost like the other people can’t see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.” ― Chuck Klosterman
- “Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.” ― Ingmar Bergman
- “Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.” ― Haruki Murakami
- “Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.” ― Charles Hart
- “Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.” ― Benjamin Disraeli
- “Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” ― Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
- “It’s like if the music is loud enough I won’t be able to listen to my own thoughts. ” ― Nic Sheff
- “There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.” ― William Shakespeare
- “To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?” ― Michael Jackson
- “Love is friendship set to music.” ― Jackson Pollock
- “Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.” ― Percy Bysshe Shelley
- “A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.” ― Colbie Caillat
- “But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness” ― John Green
- “When you play, never mind who listens to you.” ― Robert Schumann
- “Music, my rampart and my only one.” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
- “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” ― Leonard Bernstein
- “Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.” ― Napoléon Bonaparte
- “If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.” ― Anna Akhmatova
- “Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.” – A. J. McLean
- “Music is my religion.” – Jimi Hendrix
- “Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Berthold Auerbach
- “I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.” ― Ludwig van Beethoven
- “Music should be your escape.” – Missy Elliott
- “Any good music must be an innovation.” – Les Baxter
- “Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.” – Cecilia Bartoli
- “Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.” – Eminem
- “Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.” – Jason Mraz
- “Wake up, live your life and sing the melody of your soul.” – Amit Ray
- “Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.” – Paul Simon
- “I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.” – James Taylor
- “Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.” – Dimebag Darrell
- “In music the passions enjoy themselves.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
- “Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.” – Jacques Barzun
- “I’ve always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.” – Kenny Rogers
- “Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn’t.” – Gene Simmons
- “Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.” – Robert Browning
- “Music is well said to be the speech of angels.” – Thomas Carlyle
- “Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.” – Dave Matthews
- “Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child’s life via the education system.” – Victoria Wood
- “Music is the soundtrack of your life.” – Dick Clark
- “My music is a luxury.” – Lana Del Rey
- “Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.” – Ray Charles
- “Music is a thing that changes people’s lives. It has the capacity to make young people’s lives better.” – Noel Gallagher
- “Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.” – Shania Twain
- “My music is – I don’t want to say my main focus, but it’s what comes most naturally to me.” – Gerard Way
- “Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.” – Edgar Winter
- “Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.” – Christian Nestell Bovee
- “It’s pretty cool to see how far music can take you.” – Luke Bryan
- “Music is like a huge release of tension.” – James Taylor
- “There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.” – Louis Armstrong
- “Music is for every single person that walks the planet.” – Robert Plant
- “Most things in music go full circle eventually.” – Simon Cowell
- “I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!” – LeBron James
- “Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.” – Marcel Marceau
- “Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.” – Billie Joe Armstrong
- “My music, I hope, takes 100% of your concentration. I know how to do that.” – Trent Reznor
- “Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.” – Damon Albarn
- “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
- “Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.” – River Phoenix
- “Music is a safe kind of high.” – Jimi Hendrix
- “Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all.” – Josh Homme
- “Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.” – E. Y. Harburg
- “The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.” – Roy Ayers
- “Music is a talent given to me by God. A medium and a platform and a way to spread a message of righteousness… a message of love, a message of unity.” – Stephen Marley
- “Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” – Leonard Bernstein
- “The world’s most famous and popular language is music.” – Psy
- “Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
- “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
- “Music is really driving my whole life.” – Ariana Grande
- “That’s the amazing thing about music: there’s a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.” – Harry Styles
- “That’s why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.” – Corita Kent
- “Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.” – Macklemore
- “Without music, life is a journey through a desert.” – Pat Conroy
- “Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.” – Joshua Logan
- “Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.” – Martin Luther
- “The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise.” – Darren Criss
- “Music’s always been really cathartic. It’s the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.” – Ville Valo
- “Music is the emotional life of most people.” – Leonard Cohen
- “Old music is the same as new music – it’s just a different way of delivering it.” – Jeff Lynne
- “Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.” – Jane Siberry
- “Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.” – Zoe Saldana
- “My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.” – Bob Marley
- “Music is love in search of a word.” – Sidney Lanier
- “I don’t make music for eyes. I make music for ears.” – Adele
- “I’ve always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.” – Taylor Swift
- “I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.” – David Bowie
- “Music is the tool to express life – and all that makes a difference.” – Herbie Hancock
- “Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family.” – Eric Clapton ,Music quotes about family
- “It’s almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.” – John Mayer
- “Music comes from a place we don’t know.” – Chris Martin
- “Where words leave off, music begins.” – Heinrich Heine
- “Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter – to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.” – Albert Schweitzer
- “If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: ‘The only proof he needed for the existence of god was music.’ – Kurt Vonnegut
- “Music is… a higher revelation than all wisdom & philosophy.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
- “When words fail music speaks.” – Irena Huang
- “He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that’s what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.” – Hannah Harrington
- “Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end, there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.” – Nicholas Sparks
- “Music… can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” – Leonard Bernstein
- “To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” – Aaron Copland
- “Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.” – Maya Angelou
- “A man should hear a little music […] in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.” – Taylor Swift
- “I love the relationship that anyone has with music… because there’s something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. It’s the best part of us probably.” – Nick Hornby
- “I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.” – Igor Stravinsky
- “If it weren’t for music, I would think that love is mortal.” – Mark Helprin
- “If you’ve lost your faith in love and music then the end won’t be long.” – Pete Doherty
- “The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a good start.” – Jodi Picoult
- “I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.” – Criss Jami
- “Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.” – E.Y. Warburg
- “Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.” – Sergei Rachmaninoff
- “Life is one grand sweet song so start the music.” – Ronald Reagan
- “It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.” – Nina LaCour
- “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “In music the passions enjoy themselves.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
