Music is an outburst of the soul.
Frederick Delius
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
Charles Darwin
Music enriches people’s lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
Victoria Wood
Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
Maria Augusta von Trapp
If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a good start.
Jodi Picoult
Music’s the medicine of the mind.
John A. Logan
Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.
River Phoenix
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Leopold Stokowski
Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.
Fred Frith
Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
Damon Albarn
Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven.
Lawrence Duncan
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.
Johnny Depp
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler
When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.
Jennifer Donnelly
Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
Edgar Winter
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.
Cecilia Bartoli
If it weren’t for music, I would think that love is mortal.
Mark Helprin
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Aaron Copland
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
Plato
If you’ve lost your faith in love and music then the end won’t be long.
Pete Doherty
There is no truer truth obtainable by man than comes of music.
Robert Browning
Music fills the present with electric ecstasy.
James Lendall Basford
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
George Eliot
It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.
Victor de LaPrade
A fine work of art – music, dance, painting, story – has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.
Robert McKee
Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.
Jason Mraz
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
Chinese proverb
Music is the tool to express life – and all that makes a difference.
Herbie Hancock
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
Langston Hughes
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
Bob Marley
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
Modest Mouse
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
John Erskine
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn’t.
Gene Simmons
There is no such thing as happy music.
Franz Schubert
Music can change the world.
Ludwig van Beethoven
How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
Jane Swan
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
Henry Ward Beecher