"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence."
Robert Fripp
"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."
Leopold Stokowski
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Berthold Auerbach
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."
Gustav Mahler
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom or philosophy."
Ludwig Van Beethoven
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
Maya Angelou
"The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway."
Lionel Richie,
"They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."
Charlie Parker
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
Victor Hugo
"Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings."
Ed Gardner
"Music is a means of rapid transportation."
John Cage
"Music is what feelings sound like."
Author Unknown
"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."
Charlie Parker
"If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know."
Edgar Cayce
"All music is important if it comes from the heart."
Carlos Santana
"I'll play it for you now, you tell me what it is later."
Miles Davis.
"Don't try to explain it, just sell it."
Colonel Tom Parker
"There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil."
Peter Gabriel
"Music is the poetry of the air."
Richter
"If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth."
Sydney Smith
"Music should never be harmless."
Robbie Robertson
"The best music... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."
Bruce Springsteen
"We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it."
Jerry Garcia
"Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
Victor Hugo
"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
William P. Merrill
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
Ludwig van Beethoven
"The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes."
Sir Thomas Beecham
"My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require."
Edward Elgar
"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't got the joke yet."
Oliver Herford
"Honest songs aren`t written for money."
Pete Seeger, VNU eMedia, 6/26/06
"I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers, ... It keeps me young and reminds me where I came from. Teaching young artists is like giving water to a flower."
Isaac Stern
"If it's too loud, you're too old."
Ted Nugent
"Being a manager or agent is similar to renting an apartment. Having a record company is like owning a home."
Rob Kahane, Trauma Records
"Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one."
Duke Ellington
"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it."
Igor Stravinsky
"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music."
Billy Joel
"The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music."
Rabindranath Tagore
"Music doesn't argue, discuss, or quarrel. It just breathes the air of freedom."
Harold Arlen
"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory."
Sir Thomas Beecham
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
"I write music with an exclamation point!"
Richard Wagner
"Don't play what's there, play what's not there."
Miles Davis
"If music be the food of love; play on."
William Shakespeare
"In music the passions enjoy themselves"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."
John Keats
"Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever."
Victor Hugo
"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first."
Josh Billings
"Music has charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak."
William Congreve
"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."
Plato
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
Thomas Carlyle
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of every day life."
Bethold Auerbach
"One good thing about music when it hits you, you feel no pain. So hit me with music."
Bob Marley
"A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time."
Mariah Carey
"Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life."
Ludwig Van Beethove
"Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades...I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls."
Cyndi Lauper
"True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time."
George Gershwin
"Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me."
Vincent Van Gogh
"Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live."
James Brown
"Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life."
Alanis Morissette
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
Van Morrison
The Spirit speaks directly to our hearts through music. That's why music has always had such power to move people into positive action.
Kenny Loggins
"Music was my refuge, I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
Maya Angelou
"Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside."
Elvis Presley
"All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it."
Bruce Springsteen
"Music is the shorthand of emotion."
Leo Tolstoy
"Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."
William Congreve
"The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession."
Simon Cowell
"Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without."
Confucius
"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I've felt it."
Igor Stravinski
"Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you."
Jimi Hendrix
"Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music."
Ursula LeGuin
"The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels."
Steve Tyler
"I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment."
Yo-Yo Ma
"Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is."
Miles Davis
"Even if the whole world has forgotten/The song remembers when."
Hugh Prestwood
"Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse."
Mickey Hart
"What we play is life."
Louis Armstrong
"Playing guitar is a never-finished journey."
John Fogerty, USA Today, 9/27/04
"Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically."
Ray Charles
"You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God."
Quincy Jones
"Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it."
Liam Gallagher
"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."
Lawrence Durrel
"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is."
Noel Coward
"Without music, life is a journey through a desert."
Pat Conro
"All though my career, I've believed that there's a difference between being a singer and being an entertainer. A singer has a good voice, but an entertainer knows how to connect."
Don Ho
"A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O."
Ira Gershwin
"Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear."
Billy Gibbons
"A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges."
Benny Green
"Country music is three chords and the truth."
Harlan Howard
"The history of a people is found in its songs."
George Jelline
"Music is the vernacular of the human soul."
Geoffrey Latham
"Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously."
Henry Mille
"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."
Charlie Parker
"I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time."
Bonnie Raitt
"Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains."
John Philip Sousa
"A good composer does not imitate; he steals."
Igor Stravinsky
"There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it."
Ron Wood