Music Quotes

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.

~ Anna Akhmatova

There is nothing stable in the world, uproar's your only music.

~ John Keats

How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.

~ Morrissey

I hope they understand that I'm not angry, I'm just saying... Sometimes goodbye is a second chance.

~ Shinedown

Sometimes I just want to paint the words It's my fault across my forehead to save people the time of being pissed off at me.

~ Christina Westover

She sat listening to the music. It was a symphony of triumph. The notes flowed up, they spoke of rising and they were the rising itself, they were the essence and the form of upward motion, they seemed to embody every human act and thought that had ascent as its motive. It was a sunburst of sound, breaking out of hiding and spreading open. It had the freedom of release and the tension of purpose. It swept space clean, and left nothing but the joy of an unobstructed effort. Only a faint echo within the sounds spoke of that from which the music had escaped, but spoke in laughing astonishment at the discovery that there was no ugliness or pain, and there never had to be. It was the song of an immense deliverance.

~ Ayn Rand

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.

~ Paul Mccartney

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

~ Robert Schumann

You can't kick me down, I'm already on the ground. No, you can't, but you couldn't catch me anyhow.Blue skies, but the sun isn't comming out, no. Today, it is like I'm under a heavy cloud.Avril Lavigne (Runaway)

~ Avril Lavigne

We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10

~ Lady Gaga

Arin. I've wanted to do this for a long time.Her words silenced him, steadied him.Antecipation lifted within her like the fragance of a garden under the rain. She sat at the piano, touching the keys. Ready?He smiled. Play.

~ Marie Rutkoski

I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smell, touch and think. Thinking of it means my sixth sense. Particles of Light are written note. O bolt of lightning can be an entire sonata. A thousand balls of lightening is a concert.. For this concert I have created a Ball Lightning, which can be heard on the icy peaks of the Himalayas.

~ Nikola Tesla

You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

A song she heardOf cold that gathersLike winter's tongueAmong the shadowsIt rose like blacknessIn the skyThat on volcano'sVomit riseA Stone of ruinFrom burn to chillLike black moonriseHer voice fell still...

~ Robert Fanney

Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? And did they get you to trade Your heros for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange A walk on part in the war For a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.

~ Roger Waters

I'll bet she's beautiful, that girl he talks about, and she's got everything that I have to live without... He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar, the only one who's got enough of me to break my heart. He's the song in the car I keep singing; don't know why I do.

~ Taylor Swift

He who sings scares away his woes.

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

sometimes we take action, sometimes we take pills.

~ Fall Out Boy

My choice is what I choose to do,And if I'm causing no harm, it shouldn't bother you.Your choice is who you choose to be,And if you're causin' no harm, then you're alright with me.

~ Ben Harper

Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.

~ Lady Gaga

Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.

~ Frédéric Chopin

Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true.

~ Morrissey

I'd love to...but only with you.

~ Morrissey

Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of senselessness. I am tired of the music that my feelings sing, the dream music.

~ Ross David Burke

In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.

~ Suzanne Collins

Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.

~ William Shakespeare

Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.

~ Alex Gaskarth

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.

~ Bruce Springsteen

Don't care what people sayJust follow your own wayDon't give up and use the chanceTo return to innocence.That's not the beginning of the endThat's the return to yourselfThe return to innocence.

~ Enigma

I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, ‘You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the part I give most willingly

~ George Harrison

A person who...does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of

~ Martin Luther

The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.

~ Martin Luther

The heart has a heart of its own.

~ Morrissey

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

~ Edith Wharton

I am hated for loving.I am haunted for wanting.

~ Morrissey

Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?

~ Morrissey

Droplets of yes and no, in an ocean of maybe.

~ Faith No More

A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans.

~ Lady Gaga

The more you ignore me, the closer I get; you're wasting your time.

~ Morrissey

The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.

~ Lady Gaga