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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Jean Cocteau
All music is beautiful.
Billy Strayhorn
Any good music must be an innovation.
Les Baxter
But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
Bryan Ferry
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
Howard Dietz
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
Isaac Stern
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
He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
Billy Wilder
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw
I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
Ace Frehley
I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
Dizzy Gillespie
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley
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
I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
Herb Alpert
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
If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Richard M. Nixon
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
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
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
Bruce Beresford
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
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Jimi Hendrix
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Herbie Hancock
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
Michael Tippett
Music is love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Jean Paul
Music is my religion.
Jimi Hendrix
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Thomas Fuller
Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
Aaron Carter
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
Music is the soul of language.
Max Heindel
Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
Edgar Winter
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle
Music should be your escape.
Missy Elliot
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
Ray Charles
My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.
Paulina Rubio
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley
Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
Bryan Ferry
Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.
Michael Stipe
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
Andres Segovia
The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
Karl Lagerfeld
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
Gustav Mahler
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Duke Ellington
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Frank Zappa
There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
Aimee Mann
There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.
Mickey Hart
When words leave off, music begins.
Heinrich Heine
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Robert Browning
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Laurie Anderson
You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot
You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
Bryan Ferry
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
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
John Ruskin
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank Zappa
Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
Charlie Byrd
Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
Gary Wright
My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
Yancy Butler
Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.
Billy Sheehan
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
John Lennon
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
Paul Simon
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
Jacques Barzun
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
Gary Cherone
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
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler
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