Music Quotes

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Jacques Attali

You are the music while the music lasts.

T. S. Eliot

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.

George Szell

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

Ursula K. Le Guin

All the sounds of the earth are like music.

Oscar Hammerstein

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Maya Angelou

Where words fail, music speaks.

Hans Christian Andersen

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

Victor Hugo

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Albert Schweitzer

Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us.

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Ron Wood

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Oscar Wilde

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Paul Whiteman

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

James Taylor

Remember, information is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom; wisdom is not truth; truth is not beauty; beauty is not love; love is not music; music is the best.

Frank Zappa