Yet More Music Sayings And Quotes

by allinspiration.com

“I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.”
– Robert Frost

“Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.”
– Ronald Reagan 

“I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.”
– Sarah McLachlan 

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

“What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.”
– Soren Kierkegaard 

“It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.”
– Steve Jobs 

“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 

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

“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 

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

“By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.”
– Thomas Merton 

“It’s amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.”
– Tom Wopat 

“Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher – the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.”
– Toru Takemitsu 

“Dre was one of my heroes in the music industry. If he’s not down for his homeboys, I don’t wanna be a part of him or around him.”
– Tupac Shakur 

“I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.”
– Tupac Shakur 

“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 expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
– Victor Hugo 

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

“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”
– Walter Lippmann

“My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I’m still a virgin in a lot of ways. I’m not used to being shot down for no reason.”
– Will Smith 

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

“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.”
– William Shakespeare

“If music be the food of love, play on.”
– William Shakespeare 

“My father used to sing to me in my mother’s womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.”
– Yancy Butler 

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