1,004 Quotes Regarding Music

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw

Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono

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

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Richard M. Nixon

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Frank Zappa

You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Jean Cocteau

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

Music is the strongest form of magic.
Marilyn Manson

If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B. B. King

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley

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

All music is beautiful.
Billy Strayhorn

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler

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

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