Inspirational Music Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

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

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

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

“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“Music is the strongest form of magic.”
– Marilyn Manson

“All music is beautiful.”
– Billy Strayhorn

“I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.”
– Elvis Presley

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

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

“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

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

“When words leave off, music begins.”
– Heinrich Heine

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

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

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

“There’s nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.”
– Mickey Hart

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

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

“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“You are the music while the music lasts.”
– T.S. Eliot

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Music is love in search of a word.”
– Sidney Lanier

“I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.”
– Herb Alpert

“Music is the soul of language.”
– Max Heindel

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