Music Quotes: Melodies of Inspiration

"Music is my religion"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

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

Martin Luther, Professor

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Music is the universal language of mankind"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff"

Frank Zappa, Musician

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

Kygo, Musician

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

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it"

Rick Wright, Musician

"I call architecture frozen music"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

"I believe that there are many interesting projects that are potentially possible for me other than game music, and therefore in my mind there are several things that are being contemplated"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising"

Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist

"Music can change the world because it can change people"

Bono, Musician

"A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it"

Mikhail Glinka, Composer

"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe"

Lao Tzu, Author

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

Victor Hugo, Author

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

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

W. H. Auden, Poet

"I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame"

Steven Adler, Musician

"I always like to get local music when I'm in another country"

April Winchell, Actress

"Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture"

Steve Martin, Comedian

"Music washes away the dust of every day life"

Art Blakey, Musician

"It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes"

Dinah Sheridan, Actress

"I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music"

John Coltrane, Musician

"I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market"

Bryan White, Musician

"Music is the best way for me to say I love you"

Mireille Mathieu, Musician

"I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music"

Enrique Iglesias, Musician

"Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it"

William Bell

"In America, music is more tightly categorized"

Ednita Nazario, Musician

"In music the passions enjoy themselves"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

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

Bob Marley, Musician

"My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die"

Bob Marley, Musician

"If music be the food of love, play on"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

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

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention"

Michael Graves, Architect

"We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music"

Neil Tennant, Musician

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