1,004 Quotes Regarding Music


Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Thomas Fuller

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Jean Paul

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
Stevie Nicks

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
Bryan Ferry

Where words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Andersen

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Herbie Hancock

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Duke Ellington

When words leave off, music begins.
Heinrich Heine

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.
Mickey Hart

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
Billy Wilder

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
Karl Lagerfeld

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden

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

Music is love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
Dizzy Gillespie

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

Any good music must be an innovation.
Les Baxter