Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.-Berthold Auerbach
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.-Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.-Walter Savage Landor
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.-Jean Paul
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
Music can change the world because it can change people. – Bono
Music is the strongest form of magic.-Marilyn Manson
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.-Bob Marley
Music is the soundtrack of your life.-Dick Clark
Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.-Jimi Hendrix
I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.-B. B. King
Music is love in search of a word.-Sidney Lanier
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.-Pablo Casals
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.-Victor Hugo
I don’t make music for eyes. I make music for ears.-Adele
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
Without music, life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.-Benjamin Britten
If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you’ll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you’ll get to where you want to be.-Eddie Van Halen
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.-Ludwig van Beethoven
There’s nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.-Mickey Hart
The world’s most famous and popular language is music.-Psy
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.-Maya Angelou
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.-Aldous Huxley
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.-Maurice Ravel
Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn’t methodical, but jazz isn’t messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.-Nat Wolff
Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together. – Edgar Winter
You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!-Keith Richards
When words leave off, music begins.-Heinrich Heine
Music should be your escape.-Missy Elliott
Where words fail, music speaks.-Hans Christian Andersen
Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.-Billy Sheehan
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me – like food or water.-Ray Charles
You are the music while the music lasts.-T. S. Eliot
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.-Reba McEntire
True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.-George Gershwin
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. – Andres Segovia
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.-Paul Simon
I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.-Elvis Presley
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.-Herbie Hancock
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.-Martin Luther
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.-Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.-Thomas Carlyle
I see music as fluid architecture.-Joni Mitchell
Blues is my life. It’s a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.-Koko Taylor
Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn’t know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.-Gerard Way
Music is the shorthand of emotion. – Leo Tolstoy
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.-Duke Ellington
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 has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.-William Congreve
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.-Robert Browning
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.-Richard M. Nixon
Music is my religion.-Jimi Hendrix
I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.-Dizzy Gillespie
I’ve never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that’s why I go on doing it – I like to see everybody smile.-Buddy Guy
Long intros are cool because there’s a little bit of anticipation, you know?-Miranda Lambert
You can’t stay the same. If you’re a musician and a singer, you have to change, that’s the way it works. – Van Morrison
It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.-Stevie Nicks
If music be the food of love, play on.-William Shakespeare
Every song is like a painting.-Dick Dale