Music Quotes

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

Frank Zappa

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Jeffrey Tate

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

George Szell

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Igor Stravinsky

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

John Philip Sousa

Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?

William Shakespeare

Music is the key to the female heart.

Johann G. Seume

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Gioacchino Antonio Rossini

Music should never be harmless.

Robbie Robertson

It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got "Backstreet." We put "Boys" on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Kevin Richardson

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Simon Rattle

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

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

Zimbabwe Proverb

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Mark Twain