Music Quotes

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

I don't see music as working.

Tori Amos

Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.

Shaun White

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

David Bowie

Natasha, with a vigorous turn from her heel on to her toe, walked over to the middle of the room and stood still... Natasha took the first note, her throat swelled, her bosom heaved, a serious expression came into her face. She was thinking of no one and of nothing at that moment, and from her smiling mouth poured forth notes, those notes that anyone can produce at the same intervals, and hold for the same length of time, yet a thousand times leave us cold, and the thousand and first time they set us thrilling and weeping.

Leo Tolstoy

I listen to music constantly while writing.

Orson Scott Card

Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?

Orson Scott Card

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

Nick Cave

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

Scott Weiland

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf

Oscar Wilde

I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

Bruce Springsteen

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Leonard Bernstein, The Unanswere

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

John Mayer

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.

Toru Takemitsu

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Charles Baudelaire

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

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

Brian Eno

Ah music,' he said, wiping his eyes. 'A magic beyond all we do here!

J.K. Rowling

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

Yoko Ono

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

Jodi Picoult