Music Quotes

My mother says we’re supposed to make mistakes. That’s the way we learn.” Rocky Ryan in Bully At Ambush Corner.

~ Karen Mueller Coombs

There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise.

~ Terry Pratchett

I'm an artist. I'm an artist and I'm going to make art! Art arty art art.

~ Andy Beirsack

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

~ Flannery O'connor

I started out with nothing and I've still got most of it left.

~ Seasick Steve

In the world of Big Macks Starbucks coffee and oversized SUVS it was business as usual snort and go

~ Saira Viola

After dinner Natasha went to the clavichord, at Prince Andrey's request, and began singing. Prince Andrey stood at the window, talking to the ladies, and listened to her. In the middle of a phrase, Prince Andrey ceased speaking, and felt suddenly a lump in his throat from tears, the possibility of which he had never dreamed of in himself. He looked at Natasha singing, and something new and blissful stirred in his soul. He was happy, and at the same time he was sad. He certainly had nothing to weep about, but he was ready to weep. For what? For his past love? For the little princess? For his lost illusions? For his hopes for the future? Yes, and no. The chief thing which made him ready to weep was a sudden, vivid sense of the fearful contrast between something infinitely great and illimitable existing in him, and something limited and material, which he himself was, and even she was. This contrast made his heart ache, and rejoiced him while she was singing.

~ Leo Tolstoy

No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.

~ Ry Cooder

I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.

~ Don Piper

My mind begs for you in the soft, secret, silent places of the night... I thirst for you and without you my soul is a desert. I thought when I first met you, first saw you, that I loved you more than any woman had ever loved a man, but now I know the feeling only grows within me. You are the song I sing each day, each moment, each second. You are the melody of my life...

~ Gloria Smith

Big fat hairy monkey, hands a couple of octaves wide?

~ Terry Pratchett

We act out our lives to a soundtrack, thought Isabel, the music that becomes, for a spell, out favourite and is listened to again and again until it stands for the time itself. But that was about all the scripting that we achieved; the rest, for most of us, was extemporising.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body.

~ Juliet Marillier

A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.

~ Sebastian Faulks

Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

~ John Muir

There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

~ Keith Richards

The music was more than music- at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous. Those powerful moments of true knowledge that we have to paper over with daily life. The music tapped the back of our terrors, too. Things we'd lived through and didn't want to ever repeat. Shredded imaginings, unadmitted longings, fear and also surprisingly pleasures. No, we can't live at that pitch. But every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware. And this realization was in the music, somehow, or in the way Shamengwa played it.

~ Louise Erdrich

Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance, that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.

~ Robert Schumann

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

~ Edith Sitwell

Fame is not so impossible for people with charisma, passion and talent. Being famous just means you have fans, and even one or two is enough to make you someone special. Ask a music fan who the best guitarist of all time is, and while one group insists that it was Jimmi Hendrix, another group swears that it was Eddie Van Halen instead. There will never be a time when everyone on this planet agrees on something like that, but luckily that's not important. All that matters is that both sides remain loyal, which they will assuming you continue to be who you are and do your thing. This is all that you need to be immortalized.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!

~ Melissa Etheridge

I listen'd, motionless and still;And, as I mounted up the hill,The music in my heart I bore,Long after it was heard no more.

~ William Wordsworth

Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it.

~ Karen Joy Fowler

The verse is supposed to get you hard so the chorus can suck you off.

~ M. Thomas Gammarino

You all have a gift. It's free. It's the gift of song.

~ Christine E. Schulze

When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.

~ Bob Dylan

For the children around the world without a home, say a prayer tonight.

~ Third Day

Why don't you find out for yourself?Then you'll see the glass, hidden in the grass.

~ Morrissey

In the hall itself the din of the music - for this is the real way to play a jukebox and what it was originally for - was so tremendous that it shattered Dean and Stan and me for a moment in the realization that we had never dared to play music as we wanted, and this was how loud we wanted.

~ Jack Kerouac

He stilled my room, for sure.

~ Suze Rotolo

There is a folk-tale about a shoemaker and his wife who were so poor that they had to send their many children out into the world to make a living. The lads went through many a perilous adventure but came home in the end, unscathed, to help their mother. They had always remembered their mother's advice and wise words; they often quoted them when they were in trouble, and in fact they recognized one another by them in foreign lands.The countless peoples of the world may be looked upon as so many children sent out into the world. They have gone through many adventures and hardships. They have drifted apart and fallen out with one another, on many occasions. They have failed to realize soon enough that they are brothers.But now it seems that they are beginning to realize this -- at least to the extent that they are able to get acquainted with each other's fundamental natures -- through their stories and songs.

~ Gyula Illyés

We've both got a million bad habits to kick, not sleeping is one. We're biting our nails, you're biting my lip, I'm biting my tongue.

~ Lorde

It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.

~ Joe Hill

Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.

~ Erol Ozan

I’m proud of you, son,” he said. “I guess it has finally sunk in that it’s important to stand up for yourself in this world.”Rocky shook his head. “It’s more important to stand up for someone who can’t stand up for herself,” he had answered.Rocky Ryan speaking with his father.

~ Karen Mueller Coombs

Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words. And suddenly he realized that all his life he had done nothing but talk, write, lecture, concoct sentences, search for formulations and amend them, so in the end no words were precise, their meanings were obliterated, their content lost, they turned into trash, chaff dust, sand; prowling through his brain, tearing at his head. they were his insomnia, his illness. And what he yearned for at that moment, vaguely, but with all his might, was unbounded music, absolute sound, a pleasant and happy all-encompassing, over-poering, window-rattling din to engulf, once and for all, the pain, the futility, the vanity of words. Music was the negation of sentences, music was the anti-word!

~ Milan Kundera

Music is everything and nothing. It is useless and no limit can be set on its use. Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could devise. Music makes me write this sort of maundering adolescent nonsense without embarrassment. Music is in fact the dog's bollocks. Nothing else comes close.

~ Stephen Fry

Hey Jude, don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better.

~ The Beatles

As one old gentleman put it, Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.

~ Robert Fulghum

Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.

~ Simon Van Booy