Music Quotes

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
Aaron Copland

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Red Auerbach

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
George Eliot

The sweetest music to anyone's ear is the sound of his or her own name.
Author Unknown, from Ten Commandments of Human Relations

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Robert Fripp

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
Mary Kay Ash

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

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Frank Zappa

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
Pat Conroy

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel Johnson

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.
George Gershwin

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Leopold Stokowski

Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.
George Carlin, from Hwo To Stay Young

Similar to books, music can infleunce our life in a positive or negative way.
Catherine Pulsifer

Play the music, not the instrument.
Author Unknown

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
John Erskine

Country music is three chords and the truth.
Harlan Howard

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
Martin Luther King, Jr

When I hear music I love, I know I can't carry a tune and don't have much rhythm so I sit self-consciously and listen.
My kids feel the beat and move to it. They sing out the words. If they don't know them, they make up their own.
Author Unknown, from Big Mud Puddles and Sunny Yellow Dandelions

But he then his passion for music took over. While he had his ups and downs, worked with different bands, he had a desire to create his own music. But it was a music that was unlike others.
Yanni in Words

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo

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

When the CD arrived I was pleasantly surprised with the selection of songs. All of the songs had a positive message that I could personally relate to or reminded me of someone in my life that could use to hear the message in Jennie's song.
Catherine Pulsifer, from Positive Music

Music is by far the most wonderful method we have to remind us each day of the power of personal accomplishment.
Dare 2 B U

She had never been in a recording studio in her life, and now here she was recording a CD in a professional studio. Her passion brought her success.
Catherine Pulsifer, from Marilyn's CD Equals Passion

A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.
Ernest Newman

Worry is thinking that has turned toxic. It is jarring music that goes round and round and never comes to either climax or conclusion.
Harold B. Walker, from Think or Worry?

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy Carter

It's the melody within the heart that helps us to endure.
John McLeod, from Good Morning, and God Bless

The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears
To celebrate another day of life and living, flying free.
John McLeod, from How Sweet To Hear....

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

One song can spark a moment
Author Unknown, from Just One

The title of the song, "Forever Young", and the messages in the song reflect the thoughts of a parent, no matter how old a child is, to a parent the child will always be forever young.
Catherine Pulsifer, from Forever Young

For the song of bird and hum of bee, For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, from We Thank Thee

Life is a song, sing it.
Mother Teresa, from Life Is

If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.
Proverb