Music Quotes - Famous Top 100
This page contains information about the famous top 100 music quotes in many aspects, such as quotes about songs, melody, or simply harmony. If that's what you're loooking for then this is the place for you. Below you will find a table of the top proverbs we offer, containing the best of the best. Enjoy and make sure to add this page to your favourite section for easy reference in the future.
Quote of the day September 6th, 2010
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It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. Confucius |
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| After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ALDOUS HUXLEY |
| All music is beautiful. BILLY STRAYHORN |
| Any good music must be an innovation. LES BAXTER |
| Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. KIN HUBBARD |
| Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. HOWARD DIETZ |
| Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. ISAAC STERN |
| Hell is full of musical amateurs. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW |
| I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds. DIZZY GILLESPIE |
| I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. ELVIS PRESLEY |
| If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. GUSTAV MAHLER |
| If music be the food of love, play on. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE |
| If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. THOMAS CARLYLE |
| If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks. SIDNEY LANIER |
| If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. RICHARD M. NIXON |
| In music the passions enjoy themselves. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE |
| 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. BENJAMIN BRITTEN |
| 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. B. B. KING |
| Music can change the world because it can change people. BONO |
| Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. JIMI HENDRIX |
| Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. VICTOR HUGO |
| Music happens to be an art form that transcends language. HERBIE HANCOCK |
| Music hath charms to soothe a savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. WILLIAM CONGREVE |
| Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. LAO TZU |
| Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN |
| 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. PLATO |
| Music is a performance and needs the audience. MICHAEL TIPPETT |
| Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. JOHN LENNON |
| Music is love in search of a word. SIDNEY LANIER |
| Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. JEAN PAUL |
| Music is my religion. JIMI HENDRIX |
| Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. THOMAS FULLER |
| Music is the best means we have of digesting time. W. H. AUDEN |
| Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. PLATO |
| Music is the shorthand of emotion. LEO TOLSTOY |
| Music is the soul of language. MAX HEINDEL |
| Music is well said to be the speech of angels. THOMAS CARLYLE |
| Music should be your escape. MISSY ELLIOT |
| Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. MAYA ANGELOU |
| Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. BERTHOLD AUERBACH |
| Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. FRANK ZAPPA |
| No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. W. H. AUDEN |
| One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. BOB MARLEY |
| Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. BRYAN FERRY |
| 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 are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees. ANDRES SEGOVIA |
| The iPod completely changed the way people approach music. KARL LAGERFELD |
| There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. FRANK ZAPPA |
| Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. SIDNEY LANIER |
| When words leave off, music begins. HEINRICH HEINE |
| Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. ROBERT BROWNING |
| Without music, life would be a mistake. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE |
| Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. LAURIE ANDERSON |
| You are the music while the music lasts. T. S. ELIOT |
| You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed? BRYAN FERRY |
| You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works. VAN MORRISON |