Famous and
Inspirational Quotes and Images about Music
List of best quotes about music.
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the famous and inspirational music quotes below:
“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
“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
“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
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.” ― Leo Tolstoy
“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
“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 produces a kind of pleasure which human
nature cannot do without.” ― Confucius
“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
“Music
touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.” ― Johnny Depp
“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
“Music
. . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” ―
Leonard Bernstein
“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
“Music is the tool to express
life – and all that makes a difference.” – Herbie Hancock
“Music comes from a place we
don’t know.” – Chris Martin
“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 tells 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
“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
“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
“Music
sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician’s curse.” ― Patrick
Rothfuss
“Music
is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..” ― Pablo
Casals
“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 are the Wilderness, Rock is
the Road, Classical is a Temple.” ― Vera Nazarian
“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
