Music Quotes

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Geoffrey Latham

I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think I'm an introvert, or quiet and moody. I've even heard some people say that there's a certain mystery or darkness about me. I'm not that way. I'm just really into what I do.

Faith Evans

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

Jane Austen

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

Maurice Sendak

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.

Paul Hindemith

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

Nat King Cole

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

Bryan Adams

Where words fail, music speaks.

Hans Christian Andersen

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

Dennis Prager

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Igor Stravinsky

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

Peter Tork

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

David Bowie

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

Bill Hicks

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

Rebecca West

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza

Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.

Cat Stevens

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

Neil Young

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Louis Armstrong