Music Quotes

Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.

~ Morrissey

I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken.But I didn't really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.

~ Lana Del Rey

Don't leave it all unsaid,somewhere in the wasteland of your head.

~ Morrissey

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

~ Goldie Hawn

This is the strangest life I have ever known.

~ Jim Morrison

The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.

~ Rob Sheffield

I can chase you, and I can catch you,but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.

~ Morrissey

Rock 'n' roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

~ Gerard Way

Life is but a dream for the dead.

~ Gerard Way

So I would choose to be with you,That's if the choice were mine to make,But you can make decisions too,And you can have this heart to break

~ Billy Joel

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

~ Rob Sheffield

You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.

~ Bob Dylan

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

~ Criss Jami

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

~ Tori Amos

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

~ John Lennon

I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.

~ Björk

Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won't fail forever.

~ Lana Del Rey

Please, touch me, I pray.

~ Jess C. Scott

Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself;and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense.

~ Morrissey

Those guys who want to have the Mohawk...which, to me, is the new business casual.

~ Gerard Way

If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.

~ Lauren Myracle

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.

~ Sergei Rachmaninoff

I was wasting my time, praying for love.For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.

~ Morrissey

Some of us go full circle. Some of us blindly go nowhere. The circle doesn’t have to be very large to make a point, kick your ass and/or be entertaining. Remember that and stay light. Even the deaf know good music when they hear it.

~ Jason Mraz

Without music, life would be a mistake.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

None but ourselves can free our minds.

~ Bob Marley

You've got this life and while you've got it, you'd better kiss like you only have one moment, try to hold someone's hand like you will never get another chance to, look into people's eyes like they're the last you'll ever see, watch someone sleeping like there's no time left, jump if you feel like jumping, run if you feel like running, play music in your head when there is none, and eat cake like it's the only one left in the world!

~ C. Joybell C.

Music is the literature of the heart, it commences where speech ends.

~ Alphonse De Lamartine

I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

~ Tupac Shakur

We are the music-makers,And we are the dreamers of dreams,Wandering by lone sea-breakers,And sitting by desolate streams.World-losers and world-forsakers,Upon whom the pale moon gleams;Yet we are the movers and shakers,Of the world forever, it seems.

~ Arthur O'shaughnessy

He not busy being born is busy dying.

~ Bob Dylan

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

~ Martin Luther

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combinationthey produce more hues than can ever been seen.There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations ofthem yield more flavours than can ever be tasted.

~ Sun Tzu

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

~ Johann Sebastian Bach

When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me,speaking words of wisdom, let it be.And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me,speaking words of wisdom, let it be.Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be.Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree,there will be an answer, let it be.For though they may be parted there is still a chance that they will see,there will be an answer. let it be.Let it be, let it be, .....And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light, that shines on me,shine until tomorrow, let it be.I wake up to the sound of music, mother Mary comes to me,speaking words of wisdom, let it be.Let it be, let it be, .....

~ Paul Mccartney

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

~ Lady Gaga

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal. And music has always been a great way to make people aware of that connection. It can help you open up a part of yourself and express feelings you didn't know you were feeling. It's risky to let that happen. But it's a risk you have to take-because only then will you find you're not alone.

~ Josh Groban

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Music, my rampart and my only one.

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay