Music Quotes

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

George Santayana

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

Marilyn Manson

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

Ray Charles

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

Samuel Butler

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

Bob Dylan

Only sick music makes money today.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

Rashida Jones

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

Phillips Brooks

If music be the food of love, play on.

William Shakespeare

Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.

Jonathan Cain

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

David Bowie

When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.

Jerry Saltz

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

Sarah McLachlan