Music Quotes

And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.

~ Stephen Chbosky

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

~ Victor Hugo

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.

~ Nick Hornby

Where words leave off, music begins.

~ Heinrich Heine

Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.

~ Taylor Swift

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.

~ Suzanne Collins

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

~ Johnny Depp

Songs are as sad as the listener.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Next to music, beer was best.

~ Carson Mccullers

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

~ Bob Dylan

Where words fail, music speaks.

~ Hans Christian Andersen

Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.

~ Tori Amos

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

~ Tom Waits

If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.

~ Emma Goldman

Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.

~ Modest Mouse

Asleep by the SmithsVapour Trail by RideScarborough Fair by Simon & GarfunkelA Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol HarumDear Prudence by the BeatlesGypsy by Suzanne VegaNights in White Satin by the Moody BluesDaydream by Smashing PumpkinsDusk by Genesis (before Phil Collins was even in the band!)MLK by U2Blackbird by the BeatlesLandslide by Fleetwood MacAsleep by the Smiths (again!)-Charlie's mixtape

~ Stephen Chbosky

Who hears music, feels his solitudePeopled at once.

~ Robert Browning

I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have a feeling that they can’t hide.

~ Rachel Cohn

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

~ Frank Zappa

the past is only the future with the lights on.

~ Blink-182

Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, 'Life in the Fast Lane?' That's what they're saying right there? You think, 'why have I been singing 'wipe in the vaseline?' how many people have heard me sing 'wipe in the vaseline?' I am an idiot.

~ Ellen Degeneres

Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors...Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat...What then was music created for?Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves?I think I know.

~ Emilie Autumn

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

~ Douglas Adams

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

~ Oscar Wilde

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

~ Frank Zappa

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

~ J.m. Barrie

The only one who's got enough of me to break my heart.

~ Taylor Swift

There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.

~ Tom Waits

Music is the strongest form of magic.

~ Marilyn Manson

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

~ Robert Fripp

What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?

~ Nick Hornby

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

~ Lao Tzu

I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably ...

~ Nick Hornby

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.

~ Maria Augusta Von Trapp

Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

~ Sarah Dessen

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

~ Bono

I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.

~ Lady Gaga