Music Quotes

56. Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

^{Ludwig van Beethoven}

57. Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

^{Jacques Barzun}

58. That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

^{Lesley Garrett}

59. There’s nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

^{Steven Curtis Chapman}

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

^{Van Morrison}

61. The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

^{Nat King Cole}

62. Any good music must be an innovation.

^{Les Baxter}

63. Music’s not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

^{Charlie Byrd}

64. Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

^{Isaac Stern}

65. Composers shouldn’t think too much – it interferes with their plagiarism.

^{Howard Dietz}

66. I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn’t exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

^{Michelle Branch}

67. Music is my religion.

^{Jimi Hendrix}

68. Music is a performance and needs the audience.

^{Michael Tippett}

69. Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

^{Martin Mull}

70. Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

^{Christian Nestell Bovee}

71. You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

^{David Coverdale}

72. We all love musical architecture; there’s no doubt about that.

^{Levon Helm}

73. Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

^{Ludwig van Beethoven}

74. Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

^{Martin Luther}

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

^Plato

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

^{John Ruskin}

77. I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

^{Herb Alpert}

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

^{Kin Hubbard}

79. Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It’s equally humbling and uplifting.

^{Michael Stipe}

80. I asked my daughter when she was 16, What’s the buzz on the street with the kids? She’s going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren’t into Kiss. But they’ve all been told that it’s the greatest show on Earth.

^{Ace Frehley}

81. I look at you and I write down what I hear.

^{Virgil Thomson}

82. Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher – the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

^{Toru Takemitsu}

83. It’s amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

^{Tom Wopat}

84. My father used to sing to me in my mother’s womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

^{Yancy Butler}

85. I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

^{Gary Cherone}

86. My music had roots which I’d dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

^{Ray Charles}

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

^{Frank Zappa}

88. There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

^{Aimee Mann}

89. In music the passions enjoy themselves.

^{Friedrich Nietzsche}

90. The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

^{Gustav Mahler}

91. You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

^{Bryan Ferry}

92. Music’s staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

^{Gary Wright}

93. Blues is my life. It’s a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

^{Koko Taylor}

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

^{Elvis Presley}

95. Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

^{Thomas Carlyle}

96. Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

^{W. H. Auden}

97. Music is only love looking for words.

^{Lawrence Durrell}

98. Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

^{Samuel Goldwyn}

99. It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

^{Bruce Beresford}

100. Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

^{Ludwig van Beethoven}

101. The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly… music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

^{Andres Segovia}

102. Long intros are cool because there’s a little bit of anticipation, you know?

^{Miranda Lambert}

103. Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

^{Bryan Ferry}

104. The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

^{Karl Lagerfeld}

105. In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

^{Gustav Mahler}

106. My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.

^{Paulina Rubio}

107. I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means ‘put down’.

^{Bob Newhart}

108. There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

^{Albert Schweitzer}