Discover the phenomenal complexity of music and reflect on how it can positively influence your life with this sonorous collection of fascinating quotes …
- “Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And we have all heaven below.”
– Joseph Addison - “Music was my refuge. I could step into the space between the notes and turn my back on loneliness.”
–Maya Angelou - “Music is good or bad, and you have to learn it. You have to have balance.”
– Louis Armstrong - “Music removes the dust of everyday life from the soul.”
– Berthold Auerbach - “The objective and the final end of all music must not be other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.”
–Johann Sebastian Bach - “Music is the mediator between spiritual and sensual life.”
– Ludwig van Beethoven - “Music – The only incorporeal entrance to the upper world of knowledge that understands humanity but that humanity cannot comprehend.”
– Ludwig van Beethoven - “Music can change the world.”
– Ludwig van Beethoven - “Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
– Leonard Bernstein - “Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.”
– James Brown - “It is well said that music is the speech of angels.”
– Thomas Carlyle - “All music comes from God.”
– Johnny Cash - “If you learn music, you will learn almost everything there is to know.”
– Edgar Cayce - “Music is nothing separate from me. It’s me … You would have to remove the music surgically.”
– Ray Charles - “Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.”
– Miles Davis - “There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and pain, that does not find relief in music.”
– George Eliot - “You are the music while it lasts.”
–TS Eliot - “We need magic, bliss, power, myth, celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to sum up a lot of that.”
– Jerry Garcia - “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life, bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
– Kahlil Gibran - “When people listen to good music, they feel nostalgic for something they never had and never will have.”
– Edgar Watson Howe - “Music expresses what cannot be said and about what it is impossible to keep silent”.
– Victor Hugo - “The history of a people is found in its songs.”
– George Jellinek - “Music is the vernacular of the human soul.”
– Geoffrey Latham - “Wisdom is required to understand wisdom; music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”
– Walter J. Lippmann - “Just as certain selections of music will nurture your physical body and emotional layer, other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.”
– Hal A. Lingerman - “Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.”
– Giuseppe Mazzini - “Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.”
– Henry Miller - “I started making music because I could.”
– Alanis Morissette - “Music helps you find the truths that you must carry with the rest of your life.”
– Alanis Morissette - “Music is spiritual. The music business is not.”
– Van Morrison - “Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when the intelligent man uses its sounds and laws to produce harmony, thus becoming the vehicle of emotion and thought.”
– Theodore Mungers - “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - “In music, passions have fun.”
– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - “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 that there is a borderline in music. But, man, there is no limit line to art.”
– Charlie Parker - “Music should be something that makes you move, inside or outside.”
– Elvis Presley - “It’s the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.”
– Lou Reed - “The music business wasn’t safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman that you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her anyway.”
– Lionel Richie - “Music should never be harmless.”
– Robbie Robertson - “Give me a laundry list and I’ll put music on it.”
– Gioacchino Antonio Rossini - “All music is important if it comes from the heart.”
– Carlos Santana - “Music is the key to the female heart”.
– Johann G. Seume - “The best music … is essentially there to give you something to face the world with.”
– Bruce Springsteen - “All I try to do is write music that is meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion.”
– Bruce Springsteen - “In music you have to think with your heart and feel with your brain.”
– George Szell - “When I listen to music, I am not afraid of any danger. I am invulnerable. I do not see any enemy. I am related to the first times and to the later ones.”
– Henry David Thoreau - “For heights and depths that words cannot reach, music is the very speech of the soul.”
–Unknown - “Most of us go to the grave with our music still inside of us.”
–Unknown - “I believe in the power of music. For me, it’s not just a fad. This is a positive thing.”
– Eddie Vedder - “Music in its essence is what gives us memories.”
– Stevie wonder - “There is a basic rule that applies to all kinds of music, a kind of unwritten rule. I don’t know what it is. But I have it.”
– Ron Wood