Music Quotes

Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century.

~ Helen Thompson

Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.

~ Lauren Oliver

My body is an ugly masterpiece that lives off the beauty of sound.

~ Chad Sugg

I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.

~ Morrissey

The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies.-Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

~ Rachel Cohn

Music is not a fucking soda. It is not a fucking insurance rate. It is not a fucking T-shirt. It is the only real religion that is worth devoting your soul to. It is the last remnant of the primal scream, the funeral dirge, and the wedding march. It is the light that keeps me out of the shadows, and it is the reason my immortal soul is not in dire straits.

~ Corey Taylor

I look at him for a moment. Words are a weapon stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart. I come from a people of song and dance. I don’t need him to tell me the power of words. But I smile nonetheless.

~ Pierce Brown

The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand, enjoy music they can improve by making up filthy new lyrics.

~ Rob Sheffield

What's my age again?

~ Blink-182

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

~ C.s. Lewis

If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

~ Oscar Wilde

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

~ Michael Jackson

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

~ Louis Armstrong

What you see is kinda what you get with me. I'm a very real person, or I hope to be, anyway. I don't have nothing to hide

~ Kenny Chesney

[S]he leans into this guy and rocks her head like I’m making this music for her, when if I could, I would take it all away and give her as much silence as she’s given me pain.

~ Rachel Cohn

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

~ John Erskine

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do (...) Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?

~ Leo Tolstoy

There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe with a hole. It is a voice that has lived and lives, with sorrow and shame, ecstasy and bliss, joy and pain, redemption and damnation. It is a voice with love and without love. I like the voice, and though I can't talk to it, I like the way it talks to me. It says it is all the same, Young Man. Take it and let it be.

~ James Frey

She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had still always been there inside her, waiting to be woken. It grew from the core of mystery that gives a secret its special delight, religion its awe. It demanded to be accepted by simple faith, not dissected or questioned, and at the same time, it begged to be doubted and probed.

~ Charles De Lint

Don't be afraid to be weakDon't be too proud to be strongJust look into your heart my friendThat will be the return to yourselfThe return to innocenceIf you want, then start to laughIf you must, then start to cryBe yourself don't hideJust believe in destinyDon't care what people sayJust follow your own wayDon't give up and miss the chanceTo return to innocenceThat's not the beginning of the endThat's the return to yourselfThe return to innocenceDon't care what people sayJust follow your own wayDon't give up and miss the chanceto return to innocence

~ Enigma

Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.

~ David Levithan

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

~ Anne Lamott

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

~ Jennifer Egan

I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they’re your kids.

~ Jason Mraz

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

~ David Byrne

I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy. Mr. Rochester

~ Charlotte Brontë

There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

~ Thomas Hardy

I see the world, it makes me puke,But then I look at you and know,that somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me.

~ Morrissey

I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the ’90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.

~ Rob Sheffield

The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.

~ Stephen Fry

The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself.

~ Lindsey Stirling

My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.

~ Morrissey

It's so shameful of me: I like you.

~ Morrissey

Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste.

~ Morrissey

I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full.And I just can't explain...so I won't even try to.

~ Morrissey

And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?

~ Morrissey

In every heart there is a room,A sanctuary safe and strong,To heal the wounds from lovers past,Until a new one comes along

~ Billy Joel

Close your eyes, and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you.

~ Morrissey

I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out - Thank you, drop dead!

~ Morrissey

America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

~ Ringo Starr