Music Quotes

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal. But t...

If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?I didn't think it polite to listen, sir.

tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that bri...

Music had stirred him like that. Music had troubled him many times. But music was not articulate. It...

I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia,...

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the expos...

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think ...

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in...

Throughout my career nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of th...

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyo...

Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, ...

Stephen had been put to sleep in his usual room, far from children and noise, away in that corner of...

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

A poet is a musician that can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his hear...

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places...

Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced;...

Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is y...

Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren't put to music?

Metal rusts, music lasts forever.

You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.

As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the ...

Then I played the song that hides in the center of me. That wordless music that moves through the se...

You will not find it in the words of poets or the longing eyes of sailors. If you want to know of lo...

Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us.

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,that Joplin had the last drunken throat...

My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked clas...

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged im...

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.

We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the re...

There are mornings when, from the first ray of light seized upon by the eye, and the first simple so...

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I liter...

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call ot...

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.

When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me,speaking words of wisdom, let it be....

Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people. And it wil...

And, in the endThe love you takeis equal to the love you make.

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

I have my booksAnd my poetry to protect me;I am shielded in my armor,Hiding in my room, safe within ...

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

I have my booksAnd my poetry to protect me;I am shielded in my armor,Hiding in my room, safe within ...

I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over...

I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let’s dance.

A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; ...

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.

And I have fitted up some chambers thereLooking towards the golden Eastern air,And level with the li...

If you've lost your faith in love and music then the end won't be long.

Well, normally I’m against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small t...

I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that s...

The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, eng...

The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken p...

I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivation...

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t...

Thus, for an adequate interpretation of the differences found between the classes or within the same...

Music is the 'pure' art par excellence. It says nothing and has nothing to say. Never really having ...

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature...

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

Philosophy is the highest music.

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.