Discover the phenomenal complexity of music and reflect on how it can positively influence your life with this robust collection of fascinating quotes…
- “Music, the greatest good known to mortals, And we have all the sky below.” –Joseph Addison
- “Music was my refuge. I could crawl through the space between the notes and cower on my back to loneliness.” –Maya Angelou
- “Music is good or bad, and you have to learn it. You have to have balance.” –Louis Armstrong
- “Music cleanses the soul of the dust of everyday life.” –Berthold Auerbach
- “The end and ultimate end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.” –Johann Sebastian Bach
- “Music is the mediator between spiritual and sensual life.” –Ludwig van Beethoven
- “Music: the only disembodied entrance to the upper world of knowledge that understands humanity but that humanity cannot understand.” –Ludwig van Beethoven
- “Music can change the world.” –Ludwig van Beethoven
- “Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” –Leonard Bernstein
- “Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.” –James Brown
- “Music is said to be the speech of angels.” –Thomas Carlyle
- “All music comes from God.” –Johnny Cash
- “If you learn music, you will learn almost everything there is to know.” –Edgar Cayce
- “Music is nothing separate from me. It’s me… You would have to surgically remove music.” –Ray Charles
- “Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.” –Miles Davis
- “There is no feeling, except extremes of fear and injury, that does not find relief in music.” –George Eliot
- “You are the music while it lasts.” –TS Eliot
- “We need magic, bliss, power, myth, celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to sum up a lot of that.” –Jerry Garcia
- “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life, bringing peace, abolishing strife.” –Kahlil Gibran
- “When people listen to good music, they feel nostalgic for something they never had and will never have.” –Edgar Watson Howe
- “Music expresses what cannot be said and what is impossible to remain silent about”. –Victor Hugo
- “The history of a people is found in its songs.” –George Jellineck
- “Music is the vernacular of the human soul.” –Geoffrey Latham
- “Wisdom is required to understand wisdom; music is nothing if the audience is deaf.” –Walter J. Lippmann
- “Just as certain music selections will nourish your physical body and emotional layer, other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.” –Hal A. Lingerman
- “Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo from the invisible world.” — Giuseppe Mazzini
- “Music is a beautiful opium, if you don’t take it too seriously.” –Henry Miller
- “I started making music because I could.” — Alanis Morissette
- “Music helps you find the truths that you must bring to the rest of your life.” — Alanis Morissette
- “Music is spiritual. The music business is not.” –Van Morrison
- “Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its complete being, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and thus it becomes the vehicle of emotion. And thinking”. –Theodore Mungers
- “Without music, life would be a mistake.” –Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
- “In music the passions have fun”. –Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
- “Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. You’re taught there’s a limit to music. But, man, there’s no limit to art.” –Charlie Parker
- “Music should be something that makes you move, indoors or out.” –Elvis Presley
- “It’s the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.” –Lou Reed
- “The music business wasn’t safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her anyway.” –Lionel Richie
- “Music should never be harmless.” –Robbie Robertson
- “Give me a laundry list and I’ll put music on it.” — Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
- “All music is important if it comes from the heart.” –Carlos Santana
- “Music is the key to the female heart.” –Johann G. Seume
- “The best music…is essentially there to give you something to take on the world with.” –Bruce Springsteen
- “All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.” –Bruce Springsteen
- “In music you have to think with your heart and feel with your brain.” –George Szell
- “When I listen to music, I don’t fear any danger. I am invulnerable. I don’t see enemies. I am related to the earlier times and to the later times.” –Henry David Thoreau
- “For heights and depths that words cannot reach, music is the speech of the soul.” –Unknown
- “Most of us go to our graves with our music still inside of us.” –Unknown
- “I believe in the power of music. For me, it’s not just a fad. This is a positive thing.” –Eddie Vedder
- “Music in its essence is what gives us memories.” –Stevie Wonder
- “There is a basic rule that applies to all kinds of music, a kind of unwritten rule. I don’t know what it is, but I have it.” –Wood Rum
