Music Quotes

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

All music is beautiful.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

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

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

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

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

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

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

You are the music while the music lasts.

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.

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.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

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

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

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

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

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

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

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

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

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

Any good music must be an innovation.

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

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

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.