Music Quotes

Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy.

~ Debasish Mridha

Walter Pater said that all the arts aspire to the condition of music, but I’ve always felt that music aspires to the condition of words.

~ John Ashbery

They scattered with no melody, no harmony, no rhythm to hold them. If music was emotion and emotion came from thought, then this was the scream of chaos, of the irrational, of the helpless, of man’s self-abdication.

~ Ayn Rand

There’s magic and metaphors in music superior to any other art form. An exquisite alchemy is involved in mixing pieces of your self and soul into the precisely perfect blend of harmonies, melodies, and lyrics that strike a chord.

~ A.j. Compton

In Jazz, like in America, the group works together toward a common cause with lots of room left for each individual to shine.

~ Richie Gerber

I don't wanna be the center of anything, just a part of something bigger.

~ Amber Run

I know about dance, like the creationist knows about science, and typically treat it with a similar contempt

~ Eilian J. Richmond

We enjoy talking about music, politics, and subjugation. —Kinky Friedman to Night Rider on KOKE-FM

~ Ray Palla

A performance must capture or communicate with the mood and feelings of that very moment.

~ Unarine Ramaru

It seemed each band member was in his own world. Yet, each was in tune with the other.

~ Jason Medina

Music heals the soul, we kneel to the fallen.

~ Sixeye

In the Belgian backwaters, south of Bruges, there lives a reclusive English composer, named Vyvyan Ayrs. You won’t have heard of him because you’re a musical oaf, but he’s one of the greats.

~ David Mitchell

Part of my music is being alone, having that time to shut down all other noises to hear the tune underneath.

~ David Levithan

He turned around to see the bass drum popping and the horn sections pointing their instruments to the balconies and sending glorious notes to the rooftops.

~ Hunter Murphy

A good crowd had formed along the sidewalk and the concrete ledge that bordered Louis Armstrong Park. The anticipation was dizzying...New Orleans had the big-boy parades and [Jackson & Billy] couldn't wait to attend a second line...

~ Hunter Murphy

A voice said: One. One. One, two. One, two. Then the footsteps went back into the distance. After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord. Everything, all together, streaming out in one huge rush that contained within itself, like reverse fossils, everything that it was going to be. And, zigzagging through the expanding cloud, alive, that first wild live music. This had shape. It had spin. It had rhythm. It had a beat, and you could dance to it. Everything did.

~ Terry Pratchett

People are like songs to me. About 60 seconds in, I'll know whether or not to add them to my 'favorites.

~ Crystal Woods

There are 2 kinds of artists, essentially: those who want to make something popular, and those who want to make something dignified. But then there is still that rare hybrid case, and perhaps by that unintentional stroke of genius, in which one's work uncontrollably becomes both popular and dignified yet beyond its time.

~ Criss Jami

Maybe the internet raised us, or maybe people are jerks.

~ Lorde

Music promotes spiritual, physical and emotional well-being.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The impact of music is so great that you'll leave your book and start dancing.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Funny, cute and kissableI've found a girl that makes me lose controlEvery night's like the first nightNever gettin' old

~ The Summer Set

And I have fitted up some chambers thereLooking towards the golden Eastern air,And level with the living winds, which flowLike waves above the living waves below.—I have sent books and music there, and allThose instruments with which high spirits callThe future from its cradle, and the pastOut of its grave, and make the present lastIn thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die,Folded within their own eternity.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

He doesn't comment on any of the music I play: Sonny Rollins followed by AC/DC followed by the Broadway score from My Fair Lady.

~ Tawni O'dell

Music awaken our soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Music is breath of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Music lifted our spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Yeah,You rocked my world foreverI know you still rememberHow we felt beforeYeah,We should be together'Cause nothing could be betterThan the way we wereBaby, let's go back to the way we wereLet's turn back the clockThis time we'll take it slowYou can stay the night,This time I won't let goAnd when the morning comes,We can start all over, over againWhy did we say goodbye?Let's go back tonight

~ The Summer Set

Elizabeth was not playing for the sake of exhibiting her virtuosity: she played for joy.

~ Mary Street

There is something intimate about playing a duet. It's touching the soul of another person without ever touching the flesh.

~ Courtney M. Privett

Music is the only truth that everyone do listen, feels, believes and loves.

~ Navnath Godse

...there is a void in my guts which can only be filled by songs.

~ Jessica Hopper

Another interview, some more personal philosophy shared with the people of Japan:“You are in favour with women,” he is told. “Do you have any secret to be sexy?”“Yeah”, he answers. “Get famous and rich. Yeah, If you’re famous and rich, you become better-looking instantly. In fact, I’m quite an average guy but it’s what people think I’ve got that makes me sexy, it’s not what I actually have.”<…>“It’s 50 percent of what you’ve got and 50 percent of what people think you’ve got that makes you sexy… Yeah, I’m rich. That makes me sexy. Sexy’s in the eye of the beholder. I don’t fancy me much. They’ve got the perception that I’m a bit of a wild one, and I think people like to think they can tame you.

~ Chris Heath

Music lifted our spirit and awakens our soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Repetition draws us into music, and repetition draws music into us.

~ Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

Oh, the truth I must tellIs I'm lonely as hellStill looking for myself

~ The Summer Set

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed; it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.

~ Charles Rosen

Every man whose tastes have been allowed to develop in wrong directions, or in whom the best tastes have failed of higher perfection, loses thereby from the inner joy and outer value of his whole life. Every good taste is a source and guarantee of happy healthy hours and days, and thus of the enrichment and elevation of life. A reasonable capacity to appreciate music and art quite suffices to enrich life and exercise a wholesome influence upon character. The taste for good reading is inseparable from a taste for good thinking.

~ Edward O. Sisson

If the boy who drawslets you look over his shoulder.If the poetsmilesand shows you her words.If the girl who sings for the shower only,hums a songin front of you.Know that you’re no longer a personbut the airand dustthat fills their lungs.When the world perishes,and all things cease to exist,you’ll remain inside an ink stain,a paint brush,a song.Poem N. 8

~ Alaska Gold

All people are musicians Wit countered. The question is whether or not they share their songs.

~ Brandon Sanderson