Music Quotes

No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself

I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns ...

....harmony that would fittingly imitate the utterances and accents of a brave man who is engaged in...

So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we ...

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their w...

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental l...

There is no doubt that even the greatest musical geniuses have sometimes worked without inspiration....

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it anot...

The Church acknowledges Gregorian chant as specially suited to the Roman liturgy: therefore, other t...

The power of sacred music increases the honor given to God by the Church in union with Christ, its H...

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

Just sharing music with each other - that's cool. It's the selling that becomes the problem.

The world's most famous and popular language is music.

People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah,...

There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we w...

The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.

When you're playing music through the streets of London at 2 o'clock in the morning, there's somethi...

At first the solitudecharmed me like a prelude,but so much music wounded me.

Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?

Will any of those men under you ever really understand all this? They're professional cynics, and it...

Learning to read music in Braille & play by ear helped me develop a [very] good memory.

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

I have visualizations where I'm living in a really cool place - probably outside of town - with a re...

It's so funny being a Christian musician. It always scares me when people think so highly of Christi...

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compens...

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life...

And then the finale, its four modest notes. Do, re, fa, mi: half a jumbled scale. Too simple to be c...

We will not sleep, but will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. You'll see me a...

I don't know any sad songs. Except for the funny ones.

Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one sim...

The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyone’s desire.

I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.

I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don...

America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a ...

Three miles from my adopted city lies a village where I came to peace.The world there was a calm pla...

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two ...

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Who hears music, feels his solitudePeopled at once.

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, bu...

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and t...

As one old gentleman put it, " Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose...

Literature, although it stands apart by reason of the great destiny and general use of its medium in...

We may now briefly enumerate the elements of style.  We have, peculiar to the prose writer, the task...

Music and literature, the two temporal arts, contrive their pattern of sounds in time; or, in other ...

You can’t really think hard about what you’re doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe ...

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style,...

Play always as if in the presence of a master.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts--such is the duty of the artist.

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hea...

If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come int...

Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

Look deeply into life, and study it as diligently as the other arts and sciences.

Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fash...

the study of jurisprudence, by which I must earn my bread, has so withered and frozen the flowers of...

I had no desire to be famous I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyon...

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music wil...

But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory-...

All that you touch All that you see All that you taste All you feel. All that you love All that you ...

We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground...

Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell...

Everything is music for the born musician.

Life is one grand sweet song so start the music

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in...

I really think that music itself, being one of the greatest possible vehicles for mass communication...

Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner being, and we notice that even though the elements...

My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy...

'Swallow My Gift' is all about music being its own reward. I don't do it to become more famous I don...

I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever wr...

When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels li...

Music is my thing. It's my thing it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me it's Christma...

I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my ...

That was how we spoke, my mother and I: in puns and games and rhymes. In, you might say, lyrics. Thi...

Well that's very kind of you, but voices ought not be measured by how pretty they are. Instead they ...

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist]

Had I learned to fiddle I should have done nothing else.

All life is a rhythm,” she said as I sat up. “All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before ...

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.

An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever I could not sing ...

When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body pres...

I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and...

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and a...

Plus there’s the fact,” he went on, making it clear he didn’t need me to reply anyway, “that music i...

a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else ha...

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you...

The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone...

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.

The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rath...

I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn't like my voice. I was pretty sad...

Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 1...