Top 50 Music Quotations

Discover the phenomenonal complexity of musicother musical works will bring greater health to
and reflect on the way it can positively influenceyour mind." -- Hal A. Lingerman
your life with this sound collection of riveting26. "Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an
quotes...echo of the invisible world." -- Giuseppe Mazzini
27. "Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it
1. "Music, the greatest good that mortals know,too seriously." -- Henry Miller
And all of heaven we have below." -- Joseph28. "I started making music because I could." --
AddisonAlanis Morissette
2. "Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the29. "Music helps you find the truths you must
space between the notes and curl my back tobring into the rest of your life. " -- Alanis
loneliness." --Maya AngelouMorissette
3. "Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be30. "Music is spiritual. The music business is not. " --
learned. You got to have balance." -- LouisVan Morrison
Armstrong31. "Like everything else in nature, music is a
4. "Music washes away from the soul the dust ofbecoming, and it becomes its full self, when its
everyday life." -- Berthold Auerbachsounds and laws are used by intelligent man for
5. "The aim and final end of all music should bethe production of harmony, and so made the
none other than the glory of God and thevehicle of emotion and thought." -- Theodore
refreshment of the soul." --Johann Sebastian BachMungers
6. "Music is the mediator between the spiritual and32. "Without music life would be a mistake." --
the sensual life." -- Ludwig van BeethovenFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
7. "Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the33. "In music the passions enjoy themselves." --
higher world of knowledge which comprehendsFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."34. "Music is your own experience, your own
-- Ludwig van Beethoventhoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't
8. "Music can change the world. " -- Ludwig Vancome out of your horn. They teach you there's a
Beethovenboundary line to music. But, man, there's no
9. "Music can name the unnameable andboundary line to art." -- Charlie Parker
communicate the unknowable." -- Leonard35. "Music should be something that makes you
Bernsteingotta move, inside or outside. " -- Elvis Presley
10. "Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to36. "It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us
play it live. " -- James Brownfrom going crazy. " -- Lou Reed
11. "Music is well said to be the speech of angels."37. "The music business was not safe, but it was
-- Thomas CarlyleFUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you
12. "All music comes from God." -- Johnny Cashknow is bad for you, but you love every minute
13. "If you learn music, you'll learn most all there iswith her, anyway." -- Lionel Richie
to know. " -- Edgar Cayce38. "Music should never be harmless." -- Robbie
14. "Music is nothing separate from me. It is me...Robertson
You'd have to remove the music surgically. " --39. "Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music."
Ray Charles-- Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
15. "Good music is good no matter what kind of40. "All music is important if it comes from the
music it is. " -- Miles Davisheart. " -- Carlos Santana
16. "There is no feeling, except the extremes of41. "Music is the key to the female heart." --
fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."Johann G. Seume
-- George Eliot42. "The best music... is essentially there to
17. "You are the music while the music lasts." --T.provide you something to face the world with. " --
S. EliotBruce Springsteen
18. "We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth,43. "All I try to do is write music that feels
and celebration and religion in our lives, and musicmeaningful to me, that has commitment and
is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. " -- Jerrypassion behind it." -- Bruce Springsteen
Garcia44. "In music one must think with the heart and
19. "Music is the language of the spirit. It opensfeel with the brain." --George Szell
the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."45. "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am
-- Kahlil Gibraninvulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the
20. "When people hear good music, it makesearliest times, and to the latest." -- Henry David
them homesick for something they never hadThoreau
and never will have." -- Edgar Watson Howe46. "For heights and depths no words can reach,
21. "Music expresses that which cannot be saidmusic is the soul's own speech." --Unknown
and on which it is impossile to be silent." -- Victor47. "Most of us go to our grave with our music
Hugostill inside of us." --Unknown
22. "The history of a people is found in its songs."48. "I believe in the power of music. To me, it
-- George Jellinekisn't just a fad. This is a positive thing." -- Eddie
23. "Music is the vernacular of the human soul." --Vedder
Geoffrey Latham49. "Music at its essence is what gives us
24. "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom;memories. " -- Stevie Wonder
the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." --50. "There's a basic rule which runs through all
Walter J. Lippmannkinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't
25. "Just as certain selections of music will nourishknow what it is. But I've got it.
your physical body and your emotional layer, so