Music Quotes

Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his my...

The ear favours no particular “point of view.”We are enveloped by sound.It forms a seamless web arou...

The devil does not stay where music is.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the...

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the g...

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick a...

The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of mu...

A person who...does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and...

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

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to...

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transce...

Music is a form that tends to give shape to rules, social mores, social attitudes, feelings—it does ...

For he had never heard anything like it--did not know such music existed in the world--and it was ha...

My ambition was to live like music.

The man who has many answersis often foundin the theaters of informationwhere he offers, graciously,...

Every springI hear the thrush singingin the glowing woodshe is only passing through.His voice is dee...

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father play...

To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to y...

where does creativity come from? Creativity comes from the Universe itself. “There is music and poe...

Music is the soul of language.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of...

All my ways of being are musical and mysterious.Yet I embrace you openly.Ripe with expectancy.

...music, if it really resonates, will beat somewhere right near your heartbeat. That music will mak...

Don't worry about the future, sooner or later it's the past. If they say the feeling's gone then it'...

All my songs are different, but from the overall experience, I want people to sense that they can ov...

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhy...

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your ...

How many victims must that be? Slaughtered in vain across the land,And how many strugles must that b...

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and...

The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for ...

You can forget me now because I was never welcome.

As early as 1930 Schoenberg wrote: "Radio is an enemy, a ruthless enemy marching irresistibly forwar...

Damn! What did Ansermet, that most faithful friend, know about Stravinsky's poverty of heart? What d...

The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words. And suddenly he realized that all his life he had done...

Don't play what's there play what's not there.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do.

I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light...

It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it r...

A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you liste...

Whoa, you got my head in the cloudsWhoa, you got me thinking out loudThe more you dream about me the...

One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the d...

Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with wo...

I [Music] was born in the open air, in the breaks of waves and the whistling of sandstorms, the hoot...

There is a reason you glance up when you first hear a melody, or tap your foot to the sound of a dru...

The secret is not to make your music louder. But to make the world quieter.

Rock and roll, big band, the blues. He loved them all. He would close his eyes and with a blissful s...

I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and d...

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and...

For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the to...

Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same sh...

Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring politica...

Our confidence in the future restorative justice of God may even give us confidence to do justice ou...

Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.

I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything...

I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I thin...

I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm ...

Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.

Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue nativ...

It is a second-generation Seattle-scene record label; all of its artists are young people who came t...

Yeah, you and me, we can ride on a starIf you stay with me, girlWe can rule the worldYeah, you and m...

This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air th...

To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement abou...

It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to...

Rock and Roll can never die.

It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.

Life…was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but ...

I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red ...

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confi...

I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent sh...

The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into...

I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility...

Out of sorrow entire worlds have been builtOut of longing great wonders have been willed

The boy will grow older, and over time there will be other songs – not many – ten or maybe twenty in...

The boy will grow older, and over time there will be other songs – not many – ten or maybe twenty in...

And the movement in your brainSends you out into the rain

It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part o...

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree viole...

And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, ...

To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting...

There were only seven years between the first and last Beatles albums. That's nothing, seven years, ...

A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a ta...

he was home on his own and listening to the sort of music he needed to listen to when he felt like t...

Some of my favorite songs: 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart' by Neil Young; 'Last Night I Dreamed Tha...

What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I mi...

A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to h...

What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was...

A while back, when Dick & Barry & I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you *...

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that...

The Beatles were bubblegum cards and Help at the Saturday morning cinema and toy plastic guitars and...

Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days...

The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I...

Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a reco...

I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyon...

We have all lived through that shriveling moment when a parent walks into a room and repeats, with s...

Dave and Serge...played the Fiddler's Elbow as if it were Giants Stadium, and even though it was aco...

Years and years ago, I read a great interview with Jam and Lewis, the R&B producers, in which they d...

I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing mu...