Music Quotes: Melodies of Inspiration

"Music is my religion"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"Music is the universal language of mankind"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"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

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

Martin Luther, Professor

"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

"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

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

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

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

Bono, Musician

"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

"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

"For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever"

Arthur Sullivan, Composer

"I call architecture frozen music"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"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

"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

"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

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

Mikhail Glinka, Composer

"Music is the medicine of the mind"

John A. Logan, Soldier

"We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time"

Daniel Johns, Musician

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

Bob Marley, Musician

"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

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

W. H. Auden, Poet

"Music is organized sound"

Edgard Varese, Composer

"And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"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

"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture"

Steve Martin, Comedian

"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart"

Pablo Casals, Musician

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

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"Saxophone is one thing, and music is another"

Steve Lacy, Musician

"If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them"

Luciano Pavarotti, Musician

"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'"

Bob Newhart, Comedian

"I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete"

Steve Lacy, Musician

"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

"Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Musician

"Music is too important to be left to professionals"

Michelle Shocked, Musician

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