Music Quotes

I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely.

~ Sarah Dessen

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

~ Edgar Wilson Nye

Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.

~ Gayle Forman

Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

~ Mark Twain

She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing your lover, being broke, men called Daddy, women who dress like men, working, praying for rain. Jail and trains. Whiskey and morphine. She tells stories between verses and everyone in the place shouts out how true it all is.

~ Ann-Marie Macdonald

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

~ Mark E. Smith

As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.

~ Kahlil Gibran

I turned to the clarinets. They were a resourceful lot.

~ Jennifer Echols

Well, I sort of don’t trust anybody who doesn’t like Led Zeppelin.

~ Jack White

music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts.

~ T.s. Eliot

Music is not take it or leave it, Music is life or death!

~ Joss Stirling

I've found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.

~ Bryce Anderson

You have to turn it up so that your chest shakes and the drums get in between your ribs like a heartbeat and the bass goes up your spine and fizzles your brain and all you can do is dance or spin in a circle or just scream along because you know that however this music makes you feel, it’s exactly right.

~ Robin Benway

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

~ George Eliot

Don't waste your time or time will waste you.

~ Muse

The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ (fill in the blank), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like.

~ Frank Zappa

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.

~ Tori Amos

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

~ Richard M. Nixon

The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

~ Milan Kundera

The hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

~ Eddie Van Halen

You don't like me, but you love me; either way, you're wrong.

~ Morrissey

Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!

~ Maria Augusta Von Trapp

Work It Harder Make It BetterDo It Faster, Makes Us strongerMore Than Ever Hour AfterOur Work Is Never Over-Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, lyrics and music by Daft Punk

~ Daft Punk

When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.

~ Rob Sheffield

One of Renee's friends asked her, Does your boyfriend wear glasses? She said, No, he wears a Walkman.

~ Rob Sheffield

It was in love I was created, and in love is how I hope I die

~ Paolo Nutini

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleasedWith melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;Some chord in unison with what we hearIs touch'd within us, and the heart replies.

~ William Cowper

It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.

~ Neil Young

Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent.

~ Charles Bukowski

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

~ Charles Bukowski

I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.

~ Morrissey

There's a hard life for every silver spoon.There's a touch of gray for every shade of blue.That's the way I see life.If there was nothing wrong...Then there'd be nothing right.

~ Shinedown

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.

~ Leonard Bernstein

A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add up. Suicide wasn't invented for people like this. It was invented for people like Virginia Woolf and Nick Drake. And Me. Suicide was supposed to be cool.

~ Nick Hornby

Music blows lyrics up very quickly, and suddenly they become more than art. They become pompous and they become self-conscious ... I firmly believe that lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you not only have the music, but you've got costume, story, acting, orchestra. There's a lot to take in.

~ Stephen Sondheim

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa—Who knows most, knows least.

~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The more you love music, the more music you love.

~ Tom Moon

To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again

~ Mary Stewart

We are not here to do what has already been done.

~ Pete Billmann