Music Quotes

Daily dance uplift the soul to spiritual realms.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

~ Criss Jami

It's harder to make the glass than break the glass.

~ The Rza

Without sound,There would be no music.And without music,There would be no life.And without a life force,There would be no matter.But it does not matter -Because what is matter,If there is no light?

~ Suzy Kassem

The only truth is music.

~ Jack Kerouac

But I know just what it feels like to have a voice in the back of my head, like a face that I hold inside, face that awakes when I close my eyes, face that watches everytime I lie, face that laughs everytime I fall. (It watches EVERYTHING) ... But the face inside is hearing me, right beneath my skin.

~ Linkin Park

I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?

~ Jess C. Scott

[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with our mouths too...(~ IM chat with Novan Chang, 18, bassist)

~ Jess C. Scott

And here's to the blues, the real blues— where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.

~ David Mutti Clark

When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will have been of all worth, ever. You will be something complete unto yourself, present and unique.

~ Jeff Buckley

ARTThe world is full of confusion and contradiction. We cannot expect to do anything that is absolutely right. We can only measure rightness by the truth within ourselves. And our own truth will never be quite the same as somebody else's. I wish that I could touch you and be sure that it was the right thing to do. I only want to touch you briefly. Just once so that you will know. We are flesh and blood and full of faults. But we are also full of warmth. The world is full of confusion but there is compassion in its midst. communication via simple touch can transmit so much of us in just one minute. Like a painting or a piece of music. I want to touch your soul. I only wish I could be sure it was the right thing to do.

~ Jay Woodman

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

~ Chögyam Trungpa

If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

~ Chögyam Trungpa

I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.

~ Bob Marley

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.After that I liked jazz music.Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.

~ Donald Miller

I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.

~ Eric Clapton

I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

~ Simon Van Booy

The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are.

~ Stephen J. Rivele

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The perfect orchestration of the symphony of life is one of the Creator's greatest and most beautiful miracles.

~ Suzy Kassem

Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and harmony are made, so that God is honored and praised but mankind is moved to devotion, virtue, joy, and sorrow.

~ Christoph Wolff

We start our lives with blues . . . with music. It's our first language. It's the rhythm of the womb. It's your mama's heartbeat inside your head.

~ David Mutti Clark

God of the impossible, maker of all miracles, I stand in awe of You, I'm so amazed by how You reach into my brokenness, make me beautiful again, I believe yes, I believe nothing is impossible with You.

~ Sarah Reeves

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

~ Walter Lippmann

But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory--disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man moves from confident inexperience through the bitterness of experience, toward the rueful wisdom of self-knowledge.

~ Robertson Davies

Music open our minds to allow the perception of new thoughts of a higher nature, which gives us a spiritual lift, which produces yet more joy.

~ Wu Wei

With the love of music, there will be no misery in life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Fact That You Have The Ability To Stand On Stage And Sing While You’re Crying Is So Brave.

~ Demi Lovato

With my ninth mind I resurrect my firstand dance slow to the music of my soul made new.

~ Aberjhani

Listen within to find shining poetry and hear extraordinary music. You are a work of art.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

…We feel different things. We like different things. It’s like they say with books, no two people ever read the same book. It’s the same with music, yo.

~ Fox Benwell

Whenever they say I am outgoing, I say...We must have met on the dance floor

~ Evy Michaels

The most important key to bettering yourself - is just that yourself - (g swiss)

~ G Swiss

Music enlivens my soul and opens my heart to ever greater levels of bliss and joy.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Let music ignite your vivid inner colors and bring you harmony inside and out.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.

~ Lana Del Rey

A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense from Maximegalon to try to reason with the lead singer who had locked himself in the bathroom with a bottle of pills and was refusing to come out till it could be proved conclusively to him that he wasn't a fish. The bass player was busy machine-gunning his bedroom and the drummer was nowhere on board.Frantic inquiries led to the discovery that he was standing on a beach on Santraginus V over a hundred light years away where, he claimed, he had been happy for over half an hour now and had found a small stone that would be his friend.

~ Douglas Adams

Those who wish to sing always find a song.

~ Swedish Proverb

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

~ Criss Jami