Music Quotes

I call architecture frozen music.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Music fathoms the sky.

Charles Baudelaire

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

Wole Soyinka

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

Robert Plant

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

Billy Sheehan

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself

Plato

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

Fred Durst

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order and lends to all that is good and just and beautiful.

Plato

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Colin Wilson

Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Charles de Lint

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

Tony Blair

If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Zimbabwe Proverb

Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.

Greil Marcus

We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Greil Marcus

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Frank Zappa

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why anyone should have a knowledge of it.

Aristotle

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Maya Angelou

What's missing from pop music is danger.

Prince

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the a-s.

Frank Zappa