There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
Lord Byron
Indeed, there is music all around us if only we would lend an ear to it! This article on famous music quotes and sayings is a compilation of famous quotes about music by great musicians, composers and patrons of music and fine arts. Let's take a look at these quotes and sayings to familiarize ourselves with the ideas, opinions and emotions that these geniuses harbored about the conjunction of melodies and notes (sometimes, lyrics too) that is known as music.
Famous Music Quotes by Musicians
Here are some famous quotes about music by some of the most legendary musicians and composers of all time. Lose yourself in the melodious spirit of music and quotations about it.
- Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven
- Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. - Ludwig van Beethoven
- There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience. - Paul Hindemith
- 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
- A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence. - Leopold Stokowski
- It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and 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
- Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick Delius
- Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing
Thanks for all the joy they're bringing
Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty
What would life be?
Without a song or a dance what are we?
So I say thank you for the music
For giving it to me - ABBA - One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley
- Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music. - Mozart
- To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them. - Nadia Boulanger
- People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts. - Paul Hindemith
- Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. - Ludwig van Beethoven
- Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. - Louis Armstrong
- Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven
The following famous quotes about music are parts of a number of legendary songs that have swayed the world to their tunes since the day they hit the charts. Check out some of these amazing quotes from songs!
- A long, long time ago...
I can still remember
How that music used to make me smile.
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And, maybe, they'd be happy for a while. - Don McLean ("American Pie") - So everybody everywhere Don't be afraid don't have no fear
Gonna tell the world
Make you understand
As long as there be music
We'll be coming back again - Backstreet Boys ("Everybody") - I'm up against the speaker, tryin' to take on the music
It's like a competition, me against the beat
I wanna get in the zone, I wanna get in the zone
If you really wanna battle, saddle up and get your rhythm
Tryin' to hit it chic-a-tah
In a minute I'm a take a you on, I'm a take a you on - Britney Spears ("Me Against the Music" feat. Madonna) - I love rock 'n' roll
So put another dime in the jukebox, baby
I love rock 'n' roll
So come and take the time and dance with me - Britney Spears ("I Love Rock 'n' Roll") - There's a song that's inside of my soul.
It's the one that I've tried to write over and over again
I'm awake in the infinite cold.
But you sing to me over and over and over again. - Mandy Moore ("A Walk to Remember") - Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song - The Fugees (there are many versions sung by many singers like Roberta Flack, Susan Boyle, etc.)
The following music quotes and sayings seek to inspire us in times of desperation, disappointment, irony, bewilderments and many such odd turns of our lives. Take a look at these life quotes to know what I'm talking about.
- Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. - Maya Angelou
- Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. - John Lennon
- The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. - William Shakespeare
- Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. - Eminem
- My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. - Bob Marley
- Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. - Jimi Hendrix
- If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. - Oscar Wilde
- 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
- Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. - Samuel Butler
- Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy
The following quotes are from some of the most tangent lyrics of the greatest love songs ever. What could better qualify as the most romantic love quotes other than these love quotes from songs?
- Nothing's gonna change my love for you
You ought know by now how much I love you
One thing you can be sure of
I'll never ask for more than your love - Glen Medeiros ("Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You") - Come into these arms again
And lay your body down
The rhythm of this trembling heart
Is beating like a drum
It beats for you - It bleeds for you
It knows not how it sounds
For it is the drum of drums
It is the song of songs... - Annie Lennox ("Love Song for a Vampire") - Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my heart
And my heart will go on and on - Celine Dion ("My Heart Will go On") - All the while you were in front of me I never realized
I just can't believe I didn't see it in your eyes
I didn't see it, I can't believe it
Oh but I feel it
When you sing to me - Marc Anthony("You Sang to Me") - Darling, there will never be another
'Cause I love you so
Don't ever leave me, say you'll never go
I will always want you for my sweetheart
No matter what you do
Oh! Carol, I'm so in love with you - Neil Sedaka ("Oh! Carol") - I just wanna feel real love
Feel the home that I live in
I got too much love
Running through my veins, to go to waste - Robbie Williams ("Feel")
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