Famous Music Quotes

"Music is my religion"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"I've always been into melodies. That's what I love about music – a good melody that gives you goosebumps"

Kygo, Musician

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Music is the best means we have of digesting time"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"Music is a way for me to express my feelings and emotions, and I think that's the most important thing for any artist"

Alan Walker, Musician

"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain"

Bob Marley, Musician

"Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

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

Plato, Philosopher

"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

"Collaborating with other artists is an amazing experience because you get to learn from each other and create something unique"

Kygo, Musician

"I think it's important to always be open to new ideas and be willing to evolve as an artist"

Kygo, Musician

"It's important to stay true to yourself and make the music you want to make, not just follow trends"

Kygo, Musician

"I think the most important thing when you make music is that you have fun and that you're passionate about it"

Kygo, Musician

"My main goal as an artist is to make people happy and give them an escape from everyday life through my music"

Kygo, Musician

"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it"

Jean Cocteau, Director

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

Elvis Presley, Musician

"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master"

Duke Ellington, Musician

"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"There's no religion but sex and music"

Sting, Musician

"The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees"

Andres Segovia, Musician

"All music is beautiful"

Billy Strayhorn, Composer

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music"

Billy Wilder, Director

"Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting"

Michael Stipe, Musician

"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life"

Jean Paul, Author

"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music"

Billy Joel, Musician

"The iPod completely changed the way people approach music"

Karl Lagerfeld, Designer

"I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth"

Ace Frehley, Musician

"It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created"

Bruce Beresford, Director

"I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water"

Ray Charles, Musician

"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony"

Benjamin Britten, Composer

"But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing"

Bryan Ferry, Musician

"Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music"

Isaac Stern, Musician

"I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs"

Gary Cherone, Musician

"Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it"

Aaron Carter, Musician

"It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people"

Stevie Nicks, Musician

"I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play"

Herb Alpert, Musician

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