Music Quotes

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

~ William Shakespeare

And, in the endThe love you takeis equal to the love you make.

~ Paul Mccartney

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

~ Nicholas Sparks

You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.

~ Steve Maraboli

A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement

~ Jess C. Scott

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?

~ Gerard Way

V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.

~ Jess C. Scott

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.

~ Paul Mccartney

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.

~ Jess C. Scott

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.

~ Lady Gaga

You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.

~ Kelly White

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

~ Mark Helprin

And I'll dance with you in Vienna,I'll be wearing a river's disguise.The hyacinth wild on my shouldermy mouth on the dew of your thighs.And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,with the photographs there and the moss.And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty,my cheap violin and my cross.

~ Leonard Cohen

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

~ Jess C. Scott

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

~ Criss Jami

We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment. And by making the moment our own, we are rendering it timeless. There is no audience. There are no instruments. There are only bodies and thoughts and murmurs and looks. It's the concert rush to end all concert rushes, because this is what matters. When the heart races, this is what it's racing towards.

~ Rachel Cohn

I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.

~ Jess C. Scott

If music be the food of love, play on.

~ William Shakespeare

Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Some people have lives, some people have music.

~ John Green

Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

~ Langston Hughes

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.

~ Albert Schweitzer

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

~ Charles Darwin

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

~ Leo Tolstoy

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

~ Osho

Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.

~ Nora Roberts

I was always an unusual girl.My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.

~ Lana Del Rey

Who are you?Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?I have. I am fucking crazy.But I am free.

~ Lana Del Rey

I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.

~ Jason Mraz

It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter,the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands,the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains... if only one could leave this life slowly!

~ Roman Payne

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

~ Jane Austen

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

... And these childrenthat you spit onas they try to change their worldsare immune to your consultations.They're quite awareof what they're going through...

~ David Bowie

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

~ George Eliot

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

~ Michael Jackson

Disappointment came to me,and booted me,and bruised and hurt me,but that's how people grow up.

~ Morrissey

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

~ Hans Christian Andersen

Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.

~ Lana Del Rey