Music - Quotes & Sayings

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Bob Marley

Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.

Aretha Franklin

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Plato

If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.

will.i.am

Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That's the power of music.

LZ Granderson

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Edith Sitwell

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Pat Conroy

I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.

Michael Weatherly

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Samuel Butler

I'm not a pretty princess, and I'm aware of that, so I like music that is really intense, really bold, and characters that in a way almost have a dark side and are kind of evil because, for me, that's when I feel my strongest and fiercest, when I'm not necessarily the good girl.

Ashley Wagner

I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.

Aaron Paul

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

Kevin Gates

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

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

Elvis Presley

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Pythagoras

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.

Amanda Seyfried

I like a lot of things about yoga - its an intro to good music; with each good teacher you study with, you learn a lot about them personally; it's not just about specific technique or poses. I also like Shavasana - not too many exercise routines let you nap at the end of them. You don't see nap pods in CrossFit gyms.

Charles Michael Davis

There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.

Dhani Jones

Music really transcends languages, and it means so much.

RM

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Jean Paul

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

Pablo Casals

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

Louis Armstrong

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

Montserrat Caballe

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

Kurt Cobain

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I feel like music can affect you in so many ways. When you hear a song with a happy melody, it can change your mood; it can change your day.

Kygo

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Elton John

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

Yo-Yo Ma

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

Joan Miro

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

Rabindranath Tagore

Music transcends language. BTS communicates with our fans by staying true to ourselves and believing in music every day.

RM

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.

Harry Styles

Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.

Louis Armstrong

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

Mel Brooks

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

Frank Capra

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

Judith Viorst

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Leo Tolstoy

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.

Tom Petty

Sometimes you're gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go again. But sometimes you dive off the cliff and start soaring with the eagles, and that's when you find new music, places that you've never been before.

Butch Trucks

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

Dolly Parton

You are the music while the music lasts.

T. S. Eliot

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

William Lyon Phelps

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Abraham Maslow

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Jimi Hendrix

I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic.

Dean Bakopoulos

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Leonard Bernstein

That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.

Jay-Z

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.

James Joseph Sylvester