Discover the phenomenal complexity of music and reflect on the way it can positively influence your life with this sound collection of riveting quotes…
- “Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.”
— Joseph Addison - “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
–Maya Angelou - “Music is either good or bad, and it’s got to be learned. You got to have balance.”
— Louis Armstrong - “Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
— Berthold Auerbach - “The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.”
–Johann Sebastian Bach - “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
— Ludwig van Beethoven - “Music – The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
— Ludwig van Beethoven - “Music can change the world. ”
— Ludwig Van Beethoven - “Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
— Leonard Bernstein - “Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live. ”
— James Brown - “Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”
— Thomas Carlyle - “All music comes from God.”
— Johnny Cash - “If you learn music, you’ll learn most all there is to know. ”
— Edgar Cayce - “Music is nothing separate from me. It is me… You’d have to remove the music surgically. ”
— Ray Charles - “Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is. ”
— Miles Davis - “There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”
— George Eliot - “You are the music while the music lasts.”
–T. S. Eliot - “We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. ”
— Jerry Garcia - “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
— Kahlil Gibran - “When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.”
— Edgar Watson Howe - “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent.”
— Victor Hugo - “The history of a people is found in its songs.”
— George Jellinek - “Music is the vernacular of the human soul.”
— Geoffrey Latham - “It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”
— Walter J. Lippmann - “Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.”
— Hal A. Lingerman - “Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.”
— Giuseppe Mazzini - “Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.”
— Henry Miller - “I started making music because I could.”
— Alanis Morissette - “Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life. ”
— Alanis Morissette - “Music is spiritual. The music business is not. ”
— Van Morrison - “Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.”
— Theodore Mungers - “Without music life would be a mistake.”
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - “In music the passions enjoy themselves.”
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - “Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.”
— Charlie Parker - “Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside. ”
— Elvis Presley - “It’s the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy. ”
— Lou Reed - “The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.”
— Lionel Richie - “Music should never be harmless.”
— Robbie Robertson - “Give me a laundry list and I’ll set it to music.”
— Gioacchino Antonio Rossini - “All music is important if it comes from the heart. ”
— Carlos Santana - “Music is the key to the female heart.”
— Johann G. Seume - “The best music… is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. ”
— Bruce Springsteen - “All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.”
— Bruce Springsteen - “In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.”
–George Szell - “When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
— Henry David Thoreau - “For heights and depths no words can reach, music is the soul’s own speech.”
–Unknown - “Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us.”
–Unknown - “I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn’t just a fad. This is a positive thing.”
— Eddie Vedder - “Music at its essence is what gives us memories. ”
— Stevie Wonder - “There’s a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don’t know what it is. But I’ve got it.”
— Ron Wood