Music Quotes

For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.

~ Lois Lowry

Never underestimate a girl’s love for her favorite band. Never think even for a minute, that she won’t defend them to her death. Because it’s not just the music that makes that band her favorite. It’s the guys, the gals. It’s the fans. People whom of which she has interacted with thanks to the band. That band might of saved her life, or just made her smile everyday. That band has never broke her heart and has yet to leave her. No wonder she finds such joy in her music.

~ Alex Gaskarth

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

~ Bob Dylan

THAT crazed girl improvising her music.Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,Her soul in division from itselfClimbing, falling She knew not where,Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship,Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declareA beautiful lofty thing, or a thingHeroically lost, heroically found.No matter what disaster occurredShe stood in desperate music wound,Wound, wound, and she made in her triumphWhere the bales and the baskets layNo common intelligible soundBut sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea

~ W.b. Yeats

Tell me what you listen to, and I'll tell you who you are.

~ Tiffanie Debartolo

It's just nice, I guess. Knowing that someone else can put into words what I feel. That there are people who have been through things worse than I have, and they come out on the other side okay. Not only that, but they made some kind of twisted, fucked-up sense of the completely senseless. They made it mean something. These songs tell me I'm not alone. If you look at it at that way, music... music can see you through anything.

~ Hannah Harrington

Making a record is a lot like surgery without an anesthetic. You first have to cut yourself up the middle. Then you have to rip out every single organ, every single part and lay them on a table. You then need to examine the parts, and the reality of the situation hits you. You find yourself saying things like I didn't know that part was so ugly. Or I better get a professional opinion about that. You go to bed hollow and then back into the operating room the next day. . .facing every fear, every disgusting thing you hate about yourself. Then you pop it all back in, sew yourself shut and perform. . . you perform like your life depended on it----and in those perfect moments you find beauty you never knew existed. You find yourself and you friends all over again, you find something to fight for, something to love. Something to show the world.

~ Gerard Way

The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL.

~ Jennifer Egan

I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.

~ Taylor Swift

Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

this song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'we hate you, please die.

~ Bryan Lee O'malley

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

~ Michael Jackson

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

~ Prince

Music can change the world because it can change people.

~ Bono

If you feel so emptySo used up, so let downIf you feel so angrySo ripped off so stepped onYou're not the only oneRefusing to back downYou're not the only oneSo get up

~ Three Days Grace

I believe that a person's taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know.

~ Leila Sales

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

~ Pat Conroy

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

~ G.k. Chesterton

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

~ Tom Stoppard

It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.

~ Plato

Am I the reason you breatheOr am I the reason you cry?

~ Saliva

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

~ Frank Zappa

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.

~ Tori Amos

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

~ Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.

~ Stephen King

I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.

~ Chuck Klosterman

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.

~ Haruki Murakami

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.

~ Charles Hart

Don't be a drag.Just be a queen.

~ Lady Gaga

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

~ Stephen Sondheim

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

~ Vera Nazarian

When I am ..... completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them.

~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.

~ Lauren Oliver

And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day,Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,and silently steal away.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It's like if the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts.

~ Nic Sheff

Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savor each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in to the power of the music of the night.

~ Charles Hart