Music Quotes

Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.

People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.

If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.

Music must be seen, and dance must be heard

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.

The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.

Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.

Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

Music is the only thing keeping the planet together

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are

I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.

Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.

God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.

In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

Music is the weapon. Music is the weapon of the future.

The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.

Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

Relax, ease back in your seats and let the music take you wherever it does.

Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

To be honest, my goal is very clear. It's to have many people listen to my music. I want to confirm my existence even more by standing on a large stage.

Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me.

Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.