Music Quotes

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

Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

Aldous Huxley

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

Brian Eno

My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio.

Jessica Sanchez

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.

Beth Ditto

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Elvis Presley

Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?

William Shakespeare

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

Barry White

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

Brian Eno

I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out.

John Entwistle

Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is music where ever there is a harmony, order, or proportion: and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.

Sir Thomas Browne

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

Hector Berlioz

I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here.

Harry Connick, Jr.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Soren Kierkegaard

In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.

Susan Orlean

For a long time I wasn't listening to music, to the rock and roll stuff on the radio, because it would cause me to get sweaty--it would bring back memories I didn't want to know about, or I would get that feeling that I'm not alive 'cause I'm not making it. And if it was good, I hated it 'cause I wasn't doing it. And if it was bad, I was furious 'cause I could've done it better...

John Lennon

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imaginationand life to everything.

Plato

I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Lewis Thomas

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Miguel de Cervantes