Music Quotes

You have to take what you can get out of the music. It's different for everyone, but you have to pay attention and appreciate each piece in order for it to speak to you.

To me, guitar notes are the most beautiful sounds in the world.

Life is either the same song you sing day in and day out, or you go out into the world and devise your own soundtrack.

I radiated with all the stars in the night sky and the courage of a thousand men ran through my veins.

Soon it will all be a memory and memories decay and deform over time.

I had no idea what the lyrics were in the song, but his voice wrapped around my head, weaving through my hair, and whispered into my ears that made me drunk with a feeling I never felt before.

Yeah, you and me, we can ride on a starIf you stay with me, girlWe can rule the worldYeah, you and me, we can light up the skyIf you stay by my sideWe can rule the world

I hated goodbyes. It felt like I had to give so many of them away lately.

Maybe one day we'd become fiction.

Maybe the definition of a real father is someone who accepts their child for who they are, despite their faults or how far they've strayed from the path of the person you hoped they'd become.

We were both filled with the enthusiasm that comes from being with someone you automatically click with.

There are some things that are never meant to be said aloud.

That mountain of courage I had been building inside me for the past several months began crumbling, tumbling down, and gaining speed like an avalanche.

Maybe she knew some day it would become my job. My job to complete the melody she had begun.

We don't have a song, we have a whole album.

I have letters from you all over my room as if they were your fingerprints.

There are eighty-eight keys on a piano and within that, an entire universe.

As there is no joy for the broken heart, there is not also an harmony to a guitar with broken strings!

The love song I wrote that day... I got embarrassed and never sang it for her.Oh yeah... I'll sing it to her when I go home.I'll go home.I'll hurry home.

When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience.

Sometimes your music sounds like there’s too much inside you. Maybe even you couldn’t get it all out. Maybe that’s why you died. Like you exploded from the inside.

A song should stand on its own and on what a singer does with it. It shouldn't need a lot of extra help to be good.

My feet were keeping in time with the music, but my heart was pounding out a different rhythm altogether.

The more you create great music, the more it makes eager to create more and more

[L]anguage cannot match music's subtlety and preciseness of expression.

But who cares? Memory isn't about reality, and neither is music. It's about the comforting reflections we want to hold on to, even if they're mostly bullshit.

The only life that matters is in your mind. The only truth is the one that lives invisibly, that waits even after you close the book. Silence, too, is a kind of music. Silence will last.

Music, I'd heard him say, was like dessert. He could live without it, but life just wasn't as good.

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

If you could see my thoughts, you could see our faces.

Even though we've devoted our lives to music, we both know that the most important things happen without a soundtrack.

None of it mattered, because there was music.

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

If it sounds good, it is good.

I can see clouds a thousand miles away, hear ancient music in the pines.

And the waitress is practicing politicsAs the businessmen slowly get stonedYes, they're sharing a drink they call lonelinessBut its better than drinkin' alone

Bowie talks in great, voluble torrents, darting from one topic to the next, parenthesizing and then parenthesizing the parentheses, as if he has too many ideas for one conversation.

It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

Everyone plays guitar alone, but we can play side by side.

I do not have to hear your most favourite music.I hear your sweet silent music all the time.Petra Cecilia Maria HermansSeptember 10, 2016Amen

If words are not music, they have failed your song.

Make sure you date someone who always makes you want to dance, with or without music.

Don't regret anything you do, because in the end it makes you who you are.

It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.

Music repairs us when it breaks the silence.

Maybe I'm overcast. And maybe all my lucks washed down the drain.

punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am

Punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am.

Reese sucked in a breath and played faster, hurling the anger through his fingers until it spun all hisfear, all his rage, into the gentle voice of music.