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900 Inspirational Music Quotes: Musicians And Famous People

1. "If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.” ― Lauren Myracle, Shine


2. "Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!” ― Joss Stirling, Finding Sky


3. “If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.” ― William Shakespeare


4. "Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.” — Keith Richards, According to the Rolling Stones


5. A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn’t.


6. Music gives color to the air of the moment. - Karl Lagerfeld


7. I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.


8. It is not overstating the case to insist that the kinds of music you enjoy will demonstrate pretty much what you are like inside. - A. W. Tozer


9. "The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.” — Pete Seeger


10. Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter


11. “The only truth is music.”


12. Where words fail, music speaks.


13. Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.


14. A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good. – Colbie Caillat


15. "Music… is the only real religion that is worth devoting your soul to. It is the last remnant of the primal scream, the funeral dirge, and the wedding march. It is the light that keeps me out of the shadows, and it is the reason my immortal soul is not in dire straits.” — Corey Taylor, Seven Deadly Sins


16. Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t. – Johnny Depp


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18. Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.


19. I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation


20. Without music, life would be a blank to me. – Jane Austen


21. Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy. – Ludwig van Beethoven


22. "I see my life in terms of music.” – Albert Einstein


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


24. I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.


25. "Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words” — Elie Wiesel


26. “Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.”


27. “Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”


28. "Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don’t understand the language that you’re singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.” – Lou Rawls


29. “Music is the soundtrack of your life.” – Dick Clark


30. The object of all music should be the glory of God and pleasant recreation. - Johann Sebastian Bach


31. For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall. - Eric Clapton


32. “Music is the strongest form of magic.” – Marilyn Manson


33. Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. - Maya Angelou


34. "Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.” — Shania Twain


35. “Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.” – George Eliot


36. “Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.” ― Steve Maraboli


37. Music is everybody’s business. It’s only the publishers who think people own it.


38. "Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you.” — Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Phantom of the Opera


39. “Music is the shorthand of emotion.”


40. "Music changes, and I’m gonna change right along with it.” – Aretha Franklin


41. “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.” ― Kahlil Gibran


42. “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination


43. Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.


44. A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.


45. Let life be like music.


46. "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”


47. "We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.” ― Boyd K. Packer


48. It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once. – Nina LaCour


49. "He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.” ― Hannah Harrington, Saving June


50. “If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”


51. Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert Green Ingersoll


52. "To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”


53. "Music is the tool to express life—and all that makes a difference.” — Herbie Hancock


54. Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.


55. “Music, my rampart and my only one.” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay


56. Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.


57. "Without music, life would be a mistake.” —Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols


58. Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.


59. “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”


60. Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician’s curse.


61. "I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”


62. A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.


63. I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.


64. “Music is the strongest form of magic.” ― Marilyn Manson


65. A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.


66. I see music as fluid architecture. - Joni Mitchell


67. "Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.” ― Thomas Carlyle


68. We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.


69. "A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.” – Colbie Caillat


70. "I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.” – David Bowie


71. “A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ” – Leopold Stokowski


72. The power of music to integrate and cure… is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication. – Oliver Sacks


73. Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. - Sergei Rachmaninov


74. Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.


75. “Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.” – Charlie Parker


76. “There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle


77. Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. - Johann Sebastian Bach


78. Music is a supernatural force on the earth. It has the power to transform the heart and mind. - Kathy McClary


79. The object of all music should be the glory of God and pleasant recreation. – Johann Sebastian Bach


80. 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.


81. "People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.”


82. “How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?” Jane Swan


83. “The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.” – Pete Seeger


84. "Without music, life would be a blank to me.”― Jane Austen


85. Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.


86. "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” – Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy


87. "For me, there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.” ― Eric Clapton


88. "The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


89. I’ve found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow. – Bryce W. Anderson


90. There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.


91. "Music begins where the possibilities of language end.”


92. “My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.” ― Martin Luther


93. "Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”


94. "Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.” ― Edward Bulwer Lytton


95. 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.


96. “Music is the tool to express life – and all that makes a difference.” – Herbie Hancock


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98. “I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it’s almost like the other people can’t see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.” – Chuck Klosterman


99. "Music is my religion.” — Jimi Hendrix


100. Music saying "Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up"


101. Music is the universal language of mankind.


102. Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. – George Eliot


103. My body, my soul and my mind, simultaneously response to good music. - Lailah Gifty Akita


104. Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. - Ludwig van Beethoven


105. “Music can change the world because it can change people.” – Bono


106. "Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.” ― David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories


107. “Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all.” – Josh Homme


108. If there is one thing that is constant in this world, it is the power of music. - Josh Groban


109. “Hell is full of musical amateurs.”


110. “Without music, life would be a blank to me.”― Jane Austen


111. "If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.” — J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan


112. “Who hears music, feels his solitude


113. "The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.”― Jodi Picoult


114. “Songs won’t save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.” – Pete Seeger


115. Music has real health benefits. It boosts dopamine, lowers cortisol and it makes us feel great. Your brain is better on music. - Alex Doman


116. "If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”


117. If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they’d be. - Lauren Myracle


118. "Where words fail, music speaks.” — Hans Christian Andersen


119. Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.


120. "Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.” ― William C. Bryant


121. “To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?” ― Michael Jackson


122. "I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.” — Igor Stravinsky


123. "Music is the universal language of mankind.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


124. "The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.”


125. Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. – Ludwig van Beethoven


126. “Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..” ― Pablo Casals


127. I’m wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it’s stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can. – Jennifer Donnelly


128. "People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.” — Taylor Swift


129. “A person who…does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs.”


130. "The world’s most famous and popular language is music.” — PSY


131. The wise musicians are those who play what they can master


132. You are the music while the music lasts.


133. "Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.” ― John Erskine


134. “Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit and never dies.” – Edward Bulwer-Lytton


135. "Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.”


136. “My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.” – Edward Elgar


137. "To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”


138. Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.


139. And it must follow, as the night the day,


140. Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven


141. “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ― Maya Angelou


142. Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.


143. “Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.” – Hans Christian Anderson


144. “Life is for the living.


145. "Music is a safe kind of high.”


146. “I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it’s almost like the other people can’t see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.” ― Chuck Klosterman


147. Music comes from a place we don’t know.


148. "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.” – Henry David Thoreau


149. Happy soul; begin and end your day with music. – Lailah Gifty Akita


150. Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.


151. Can a mere song change people’s minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart and the heart may change your mind. – Elvis Costello


152. "Or music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts.” — T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets


153. “Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” – Leonard Bernstein


154. Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.


155. “It’s like if the music is loud enough I won’t be able to listen to my own thoughts. ” ― Nic Sheff


156. Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.


157. "Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.”― Alex Gaskarth


158. “Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.” – Sarah Dessen


159. “Without music, life would be a blank to me.”


160. Even if you can’t sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.


161. “When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you’re writing about at the time. ” ― Lady Gaga


162. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night


163. "Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”


164. “If music be the food of love, play on.” ― William Shakespeare


165. How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? – Jane Swan


166. “People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”


167. If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. - Albert Einstein


168. "Music is the strongest form of magic.” ― Marilyn Manson


169. "How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?” — Jane Swan


170. "The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.” — Roy Ayers


171. "Music isn’t just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It’s a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it’s joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven.” — Orson Scott Card


172. “How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?” ― Jane Swan


173. Without music, life would be a blank to me. - Jane Austen


174. Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones. – Keith Richards


175. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”


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177. “My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.” ― Edith Sitwell


178. "The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with – nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.” — Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape


179. “If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: the only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.” – Kurt Vonnegut


180. My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. - Martin Luther


181. The power of music to integrate and cure... is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication. - Oliver Sacks


182. Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.


183. "Music is well said to be the speech of angels.” – Thomas Carlyle


184. I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.


185. The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.


186. "Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.” – E.Y. Harburg


187. "Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”


188. “If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.” ― John Lennon


189. “Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.” ― Kurt Vonnegut


190. "There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.” ― George Eliot


191. "Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ― Maya Angelou


192. "Life and love go on, let the music play.” — Johnny Cash


193. “Without music, life would be a mistake.” – Friedrich Nietzsche


194. "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” – Victor Hugo


195. "To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” — Aaron Copland


196. He who sings frightens away his ills


197. "Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.” — Emory Austin


198. Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter


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


200. "The more you love music, the more music you love.” – Tom Moon


201. “With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.”


202. "Long intros are cool because there’s a little bit of anticipation, you know?” – Miranda Lambert


203. “We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”


204. "Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.” — Kahlil Gibran


205. "Music is the shorthand of emotion.”


206. Music has the power to heal, transform and inspire and we have the power through deep listening to increase our intuition and self-awareness. - Andre Feriante


207. "Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.” – Morrissey


208. "Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.” — Eddie Van Halen


209. Related: The Best Fun, Happy Songs


210. "Life is one grand sweet song so start the music.”― Ronald Reagan


211. The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.


212. Music – not just the lyrics, but the music itself – expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.


213. “Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights?… It is a problem, and yet it seems to me that this is the answer: ‘Love can give no idea of music; music can give an idea of love.’… Why separate them? They are two wings of the soul.” – Hector Berlioz


214. Without music, life would be a mistake


215. Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. – Haruki Murakami


216. “The only love affair I have ever had was with music.” – Maurice Ravel


217. "I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.” ― Tom Waits


218. Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness. – Jason Mraz


219. Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize. - Napoléon Bonaparte


220. Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there’s no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.


221. "Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.” – Elton John


222. A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.


223. Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.


224. "Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.” – Eminem


225. "I've found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.” ― Bryce W. Anderson


226. “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ― Aldous Huxley


227. Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.


228. The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.


229. “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” – Confucius


230. “Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.” ― Frank Zappa


231. "Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” – Pablo Casals


232. "Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.”


233. Can a mere song change people's minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart and the heart may change your mind. - Elvis Costello


234. "If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they’d be.” ― Lauren Myracle


235. Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe.


236. “People haven't always been there for me but music always has.”


237. “Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.” – Franz Liszt


238. "Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.” — Marcel Marceau


239. “The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.” ― W.H. Auden


240. “Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.” ― Ludwig van Beethoven


241. And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.


242. “Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy” ― Ludwig van Beethoven


243. “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” ― Albert Einstein


244. Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. – Maya Angelou


245. Music is to the soul what words are to the mind. - Modest Mouse


246. "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Berthold Auerbach


247. If you’ve lost your faith in love and music then the end won’t be long.


248. 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.


249. “Music is an outburst of the soul.” ― Frederick Delius


250. "Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” ― Jean Paul Friedrich Richter


251. Life is for the living.


252. "Music is my higher power.” – Oliver James


253. "Without music, I should wish to die.” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay


254. "Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.” – Stevie Wonder


255. Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. – Alphonse De Lamartine


256. 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


257. Love is friendship set to music.


258. "Music… can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” — Leonard Bernstein


259. “Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.” ― George Eliot


260. "Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy” ― Ludwig van Beethoven


261. If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.


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


263. “Wake up, live your life and sing the melody of your soul.”


264. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.


265. “Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”


266. There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.


267. "Where words leave off, music begins.” — Heinrich Heine


268. Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.


269. "The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.” — Bruce Springsteen


270. "Music is the soundtrack of your life.” — Dick Clark


271. “There is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.” – Edward Elgar


272. “I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.” – William James


273. "I am comforted by the assurance that there will be beautiful music in heaven, and for that I am most grateful.” ― Spencer W. Kimball


274. “Music is the shorthand of emotion.” – Leo Tolstoy


275. I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. – Billy Joel


276. “Tell me what you listen to, and I’ll tell you who you are.” ― Tiffanie DeBartolo


277. I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.


278. Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. – Johann Sebastian Bach


279. “Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” ― Jean Paul Friedrich Richter


280. It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once. - Nina LaCour


281. "Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”


282. Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.


283. "A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” — Leopold Stokowski


284. “Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.” ― Johnny Depp


285. "Music is the emotional life of most people.” — Leonard Cohen


286. To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.


287. “My ambition was to live like music.” – Mary Gaitskill


288. "There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.” — Sun Tzu


289. "Live music is where you get the inspiration and the creativity.” – Paul Rodgers


290. Country music is three chords and the truth.


291. “There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”


292. “I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” – John Cage


293. “Love is friendship set to music.” ― Jackson Pollock


294. I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can. - Jennifer Donnelly


295. "Music is by far the most wonderful method we have to remind us each day of the power of personal accomplishment.” – Chris S. Salazar


296. Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.


297. "We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” — Arthur O’Shaughnessy


298. “Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly, two.” – Frederic Chopin


299. “Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.” – Sergei Rachmaninoff


300. "Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.” ― Douglas Adams


301. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


302. Javascript and RSS feeds


303. Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.


304. Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Andersen


305. “I merely took the energy it takes to pour and wrote some blues.” – Duke Ellington


306. Too bad people can't always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn't be any more wars. - Margot Benary-Isbert


307. "Music is an addiction.”


308. and life to everything.”


309. Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig Van Beethoven


310. "My ambition was to live like music.” — Mary Gaitskill


311. "Some people have lives; some people have music.”


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


313. “I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.” ― Morrissey


314. Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.


315. I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.


316. “For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.” ― Lois Lowry


317. "The only truth is music.” — Jack Kerouac


318. "People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.” ― Taylor Swift


319. "Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?” ― Goldie Hawn


320. Music is critical in our lives and culture. It’s the inspiration that drives us. It’s also the window to our souls. It’s a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we’re going.


321. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone


322. If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. – Albert Einstein


323. “Where words leave off, music begins.” – Heinrich Heine


324. "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.” — John Keats


325. “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”


326. "If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words” ― Dolly Parton


327. Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn’t.


328. Life and love go on, let the music play.


329. Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.


330. “Music… will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.”


331. "Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.” ― John Milton


332. “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” ― Victor Hugo


333. "Love is friendship set to music.” — Jackson Pollock


334. "The more you love music, the more music you love.” ― Tom Moon


335. "Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning, there is mystery, in the end, there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.” —Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song


336. Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens. - Maria Von Trapp


337. "Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.” — Paul Simon


338. “Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.” ― Haruki Murakami


339. Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens. – Maria Von Trapp


340. "Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.” — Billy Joel


341. You can cage the singer but not the song


342. “I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.”


343. Music is the strongest form of magic. – Marilyn Manson


344. "Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.” – Joshua Logan


345. "My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.” ― Martin Luther


346. “I adore art… when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.” – Guiseppe Verdi


347. "One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” — Bob Marley


348. "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”


349. “You couldn’t not like someone who liked the guitar.”


350. "Where words leave off, music begins.”


351. "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” — Berthold Auerbach


352. A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.


353. And death a note unsaid.”


354. “Music is the shorthand of emotion.” ― Leo Tolstoy


355. "If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” — Albert Einstein


356. "Music revives the recollections it would appease.” ― Madame de Stael


357. Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.


358. "Music is the universal language of mankind.”


359. 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


360. Death is for the dead.


361. Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. – Kahlil Gibran


362. "If Music is a Place – then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.” — Vera Nazarin


363. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” — Plato


364. “I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.”


365. "Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.” ― Percy Bysshe Shelley


366. "Where words fail, music speaks.”


367. I believe that a person’s taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know.


368. Music can change the world because it can change people. – Bono


369. ‘Ah, music,’ he said, wiping his eyes. ‘A magic beyond all we do here!’


370. To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.


371. The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.


372. “To play without passion is inexcusable!” – Ludwig van Beethoven


373. For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall. – Eric Clapton


374. "I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.” – Igor Stravinsky


375. "Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.” — Aretha Franklin


376. "Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.” ― Modest Mouse


377. “Some people have lives; some people have music.”


378. “Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.” – Ray Charles


379. “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” ― Bob Marley


380. “Where words leave off, music begins.”


381. “Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” – Robert Fripp


382. "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.” — Victor Hugo


383. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.


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


385. "A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.” — Chinese Proverb


386. "Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.” — Yip Harburg


387. Happy soul; begin and end your day with music. - Lailah Gifty Akita


388. Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.


389. Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius


390. "Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”


391. “Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” ― Robert Fripp


392. "The power of music makes all the difference to me with motivation throughout the day.” – Paul Brodie


393. “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.” – Victor Hugo


394. “Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.” ― Napoléon Bonaparte


395. "Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it’s not OK, but you can change it.” – Bono


396. “Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”


397. Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.


398. “Music is the universal language of mankind.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


399. "If music be the food of love, play on.” — William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night


400. We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.


401. "Can a mere song change a people's minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart and the heart may change your mind.” ― Elvis Costello


402. "There are two means of refuge from the misery of life—music and cats.” — Albert Schweitzer


403. "Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.” — Edgar Winter


404. "Music is the silence between the notes.” – Claude Debussy


405. “Life is one grand, sweet song so start the music.” – Ronald Reagan


406. "Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.” ― Robert G. Ingersoll


407. "Without music, life would be a mistake.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche


408. “None but ourselves can free our minds.”


409. Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.


410. Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings without attaching them to events or objects in the world. - George Santayana


411. “The music is not in the notes, but in the silence in between.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


412. “Music is everybody’s business. It’s only the publishers who think people own it” ― John Lennon


413. “Music is an outburst of the soul.” – Frederick Delius


414. "Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!” ― J. K. Rowling


415. "Country music is three chords and the truth.” – Harlan Howard


416. "Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.” — Joshua Logan


417. "If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: ‘The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.’” — Kurt Vonnegut


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419. "Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes


420. He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that’s what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you. – Hannah Harrington


421. Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel. - Michael Bassey Johnson


422. “Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.”


423. "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” ― Albert Schweitzer


424. Those who dance are considered insane by those who can’t hear the music. – George Carlin


425. “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.”


426. "If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.” ― Richard Nixon


427. "Music can change the world because it can change people.” ― Bono


428. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


429. “To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.” – Robert Schumann


430. Some people have lives; some people have music.


431. “Do it again on the next verse and people think you meant it.” – Chet Atkins


432. “I see my life in terms of music.” ― Albert Einstein


433. “Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.” ― Sarah Dessen


434. "It’s like if the music is loud enough I won’t be able to listen to my own thoughts.” – Nic Sheff


435. "I’ve always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.” — John Barrowman


436. Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.


437. "Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.” – Johnny Depp


438. "Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.” — Oscar Wilde


439. "Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” ― Pablo Casals


440. Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. - Pablo Casals


441. He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that’s what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.


442. “You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.” ― Kelly White


443. "Music can change the world.” — Ludwig van Beethoven


444. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. – Victor Hugo


445. Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings without attaching them to events or objects in the world. – George Santayana


446. Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.


447. “I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.” – Tom Waits


448. Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. - Edward Bulwer Lytton


449. Who hears music, feels his solitude


450. “Those who wish to sing always find a song.” – Unknown


451. Music gives color to the air of the moment.


452. "Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.” — Elton John


453. Those who wish to sing always find a song


454. “Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.” ― Edward Bulwer-Lytton


455. A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.


456. "A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.” ― Colbie Caillat


457. Too bad people can’t always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn’t be any more wars. – Margot Benary-Isbert


458. A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It’s an individual-feel thing, you know?


459. “The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.”


460. Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. - Sarah Dessen


461. “Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” ― Lao Tzu


462. "Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” — Lao Tzu


463. “Music comes to me more readily than words.” – Ludwig Van Beethoven


464. "Music, my rampart and my only one.” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay


465. "Music is my religion.”


466. “I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.” – Igor Stravinsky


467. To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the words make.


468. Music should be an essential part of every analysis.


469. “Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.” – Emory Austin


470. “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


471. Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.


472. Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.


473. “But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness” ― John Green


474. "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”


475. Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don’t understand the language, they still know good music when they hear it. – Lou Rawls


476. "Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.” ― Charles Hart


477. Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.


478. “Music is my higher power” ― Oliver James


479. “I’m just a musical prostitute, my dear.” ― Freddie Mercury


480. “I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.” ― Tom Waits


481. "A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”


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


483. “Music is the emotional life of most people.” – Leonard Cohen


484. Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.


485. Where words fail, music speaks. – Hans Christian Andersen


486. Music is my religion.


487. “Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.” – Franz Schubert


488. Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.


489. "When we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.” — Alan Watts


490. “Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” ― Leonard Bernstein


491. "Music doesn't get in. Music is already in. Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn't necessarily know you had inside you and runs around waking them all up. A rebirth of sorts.” — Matt Haig, How to Stop Time


492. “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”


493. “As long as we live, there is never enough singing.” – Martin Luther


494. "Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.” ― Maria von Trapp


495. Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. - Haruki Murakami


496. “Where words fail, music speaks.”


497. Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. – Plato


498. Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.


499. Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.


500. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Berthold Auerbach


501. “People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It’s like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.” ― Michael Jackson


502. “Without music, life would be a mistake.”


503. “Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.”


504. Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears – it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more – it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.


505. “You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.” – Kelly White


506. “Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.” ― Modest Mouse


507. Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.


508. "Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.” – Marcel Marceau


509. Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel. – Michael Bassey Johnson


510. "Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.” ― Sergei Rachmaninov


511. Music is a safe kind of high.


512. "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


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514. “Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” Jean Paul Friedrich Richter


515. “Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.” ― Johann Sebastian Bach


516. "Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.” – Plato


517. “When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don’t even notice.” – Sarah Vaughan


518. "How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?” – Jane Swan


519. The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with – nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.


520. "Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.” – Sarah Dessen


521. “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” – Plato


522. “Music can change the world.” – Ludwig van Beethoven


523. "Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.” ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen


524. My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.


525. “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”


526. Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.


527. Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.


528. Music – what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!


529. "I believe that a person's taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know.” — Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life


530. Every song is like a painting. - Dick Dale


531. “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”


532. “There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” ― Albert Schweitzer


533. “The more you love,the more love you have to give.It’s the only feeling we have which is infinite…” ― Christina Westover


534. “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”


535. Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch. - Debasish Mridha


536. The appetite may sicken, and so die.


537. "Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.” ― Napoléon Bonaparte


538. "Country music is three chords and the truth.” — Harlan Howard


539. “If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:


540. “Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.” – Claude Debussy


541. “Music is the universal language of mankind.”


542. “The more you love music, the more music you love.” – Tom Moon


543. “If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.” – Louis Armstrong


544. If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practicing, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.


545. "Without music, life would be a blank to me.” — Jane Austen, Emma


546. “Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.” – Haruki Murakami


547. "Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.” — Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc


548. "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


549. My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.


550. "Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.” — Thomas Fuller


551. "Or music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts.” — T.S. Eliot


552. “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.”


553. Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't. - Johnny Depp


554. “Music is life itself.” – Louis Armstrong


555. “Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” – Lao Tzu


556. "Music is like a huge release of tension.” – James Taylor


557. "Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.” ― Johann Sebastian Bach


558. “No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.” ― Kurt Vonnegut


559. “Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.” ― Ingmar Bergman


560. “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


561. There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.


562. "Music gives color to the air of the moment.”― Karl Lagerfeld


563. "Some people have lives; some people have music.” – John Green


564. Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.


565. "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” – Aldous Huxley


566. “Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”


567. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. - Victor Hugo


568. "Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.” — Napoleon Bonaparte


569. When we sing together in harmony, our hearts start beating together. – Tania De Jong


570. "Music is the universal language of mankind.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


571. Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness. - Jason Mraz


572. Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.


573. "When words fail music speaks. – Irena Huang


574. Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.


575. "Music gives color to the air of the moment.” — Karl Lagerfeld


576. It is not overstating the case to insist that the kinds of music you enjoy will demonstrate pretty much what you are like inside. – A. W. Tozer


577. "The most effective preaching of the gospel is when it is accompanied by beautiful, appropriate music.” ― Harold B. Lee


578. "If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.” — Gustav Mahler


579. "Music is the medicine of the mind.”


580. “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”


581. "Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvelous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.” — Frédéric Chopin


582. "I need to listen to chill music when I’m driving. It prevents road rage.” – Aaron Paul


583. The best music… is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. - Bruce Springsteen


584. "Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”


585. When words fail music speaks. - Irena Huang


586. How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? - Jane Swan


587. "Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch.” ― Debasish Mridha


588. "Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley


589. "Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.” – Jimi Hendrix


590. "I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it’s almost like the other people can’t see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.” ― Chuck Klosterman


591. I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. - Billy Joel


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


593. A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good. - Colbie Caillat


594. “Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.” ― Benjamin Disraeli


595. "Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.” — Alphonse de Lamartine


596. If music be the food of love, play on,


597. My body, my soul and my mind, simultaneously response to good music. – Lailah Gifty Akita


598. “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


599. Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.


600. "Life is one grand, sweet song so start the music.” — Ronald Reagan


601. Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize. – Napoléon Bonaparte


602. "Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.” – Alphonse de Lamartine


603. Music is a supernatural force on the earth. It has the power to transform the heart and mind. – Kathy McClary


604. “I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.” ― Ludwig van Beethoven


605. Related: The Best Music Videos of All Time


606. “When you play, never mind who listens to you.” ― Robert Schumann


607. "Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn’t.” — Gene Simmons


608. If you love and listen to the wrong kinds of music your inner life will wither and die. - A. W. Tozer


609. "Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.” — Pat Conroy


610. Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century. - Helen Thompson


611. "Those who wish to sing always find a song.” – Unknown


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


613. "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.” — Frank Zappa


614. “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.” Percy Bysshe Shelley


615. If there is one thing that is constant in this world, it is the power of music. – Josh Groban


616. Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. – Edward Bulwer Lytton


617. Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.


618. Without music, life would be a mistake.


619. "Music is everybody’s business. It’s only the publishers who think people own it.”


620. “If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.”


621. One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley


622. "Without music, life would be a mistake.”


623. "He who sings frightens away his ills.” — Miguel de Cervantes


624. Music with all its subtlety has immense power to unite people, spread love and bring peace in the world! – Sanchita Pandey


625. Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.


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


627. Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century. – Helen Thompson


628. Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. – Pablo Casals


629. Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.


630. Philosophy is the highest music.


631. Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. – Ludwig Van Beethoven


632. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” – Plato


633. “Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.” – Robert G. Ingersoll


634. The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.


635. "Without music, life would be a blank to me.”


636. "I lose myself in music because I can’t be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.” – Robert Smith


637. Music is like a huge release of tension. - James Taylor


638. "Music is love in search of a word.” — Sidney Lanier


639. “Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.” ― Plato


640. Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse De Lamartine


641. Music has infinite power to reach the gap between the heart and the soul to create infinite and ineffable joy. – Debasish Mridha


642. If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know


643. I’ve always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.


644. 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.


645. “He who sings frightens away his ills.” – Miguel de Cervantes


646. “Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.” – Hunter S. Thomspon


647. If you love and listen to the wrong kinds of music your inner life will wither and die. – A. W. Tozer


648. “Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.” ― Charles Hart


649. “Wake up, live your life and sing the melody of your soul.” – Amit Ray


650. Music is the strongest form of magic.


651. “The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


652. "That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.” ― Dave Grohl


653. Music is one of the longest standing self-prescribed therapy in history. – Erin Seibert


654. Music is one of the longest standing self-prescribed therapy in history. - Erin Seibert


655. Without music, life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche


656. Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all.


657. “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” – Aldous Huxley


658. George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss


659. "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


660. “If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan


661. Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch. – Debasish Mridha


662. "If you’ve lost your faith in love and music, then the end won’t be long.” — Pete Doherty


663. "Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.”


664. Music is to the soul what words are to the mind. – Modest Mouse


665. Music is the best, and cheapest, mind-altering drug in the world. – Kamand Kojouri


666. "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” — Robert Fripp


667. "Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.” – Ludwig van Beethoven


668. FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD


669. "Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.” – Maria von Trapp


670. "Music is the strongest form of magic.”


671. Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.


672. Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it’s not OK, but you can change it.


673. Music gives color to the air of the moment. – Karl Lagerfeld


674. "When you’re happy, you enjoy the music but when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics.” ― Frank Ocean


675. Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have. - Alex Gaskarth


676. "You can cage the singer but not the song.” — Harry Belafonte


677. “Music is well said to be the speech of angels.” – Thomas Carlyle


678. "Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.” ― Haruki Murakami


679. Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.


680. Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvelous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.


681. "Music is an outburst of the soul.”


682. Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.


683. "Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.” ― Thomas Fuller


684. Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.


685. "Every song is like a painting.” – Dick Dale


686. "Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.” – Jason Mraz


687. “Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.” ― Keith Richards


688. “If music be the food of love, play on.” – William Shakespeare


689. “The only truth is music.” – Jack Kerouac


690. THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED


691. Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran


692. Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.


693. Music with all its subtlety has immense power to unite people, spread love and bring peace in the world! - Sanchita Pandey


694. I've found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow. - Bryce W. Anderson


695. "Music is an outburst of the soul.” ― Frederick Delius


696. “If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.” – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan


697. "The more you love music, the more music you love.” ― Tom Moon, 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die


698. “The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.”


699. Goodreads Choice Awards Winners 2022


700. "The only truth is music.” ― Jack Kerouac


701. Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.


702. "The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


703. "Music is the shorthand of emotion.” — Leo Tolstoy


704. "The true beauty of music is that it connects people.”


705. Music has infinite power to reach the gap between the heart and the soul to create infinite and ineffable joy. - Debasish Mridha


706. “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”


707. “It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.” ― George Eliot


708. “It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the music, there are no questions and no need for answers.” – Gustav Mahler


709. I’ve found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.


710. Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought. - E.Y. Harburg


711. And death a note unsaid.


712. "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”


713. Music has the power to heal, transform and inspire and we have the power through deep listening to increase our intuition and self-awareness. – Andre Feriante


714. "Music is life itself.” — Louis Armstrong


715. Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don’t understand the language, they still know good music when they hear it. - Lou Rawls


716. Those who dance are considered insane by those who can’t hear the music. - George Carlin


717. "For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.” – Reba McEntire


718. My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.


719. “Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.” ― G.K. Chesterton


720. “Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”


721. Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought. – E.Y. Harburg


722. “Music is love in search of a word.” – Sidney Lanier


723. "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”


724. Music is the tool to express life – and all that makes a difference.


725. If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they’d be. – Lauren Myracle


726. “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” ― Confucius


727. Hans Christian Anderson


728. “A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.” – Dmitri Shostakovich


729. "Music should be an essential part of every analysis.” — Carl Jung


730. "My music isn’t just music—it’s medicine.” — Kanye West


731. When we sing together in harmony, our hearts start beating together. - Tania De Jong


732. My music isn’t just music – its medicine.


733. "Composers shouldn’t think too much – it interferes with their plagiarism.” – Howard Dietz


734. Music is the strongest form of magic. - Marilyn Manson


735. "Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”― Ludwig van Beethoven


736. "Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.” — Charlie Parker


737. Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have. – Alex Gaskarth


738. "Music should be your escape.” — Missy Elliot


739. “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”


740. 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


741. “The world’s most famous and popular language is music.” – Psy


742. To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?


743. “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”


744. "Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.” – Pat Conroy


745. Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.


746. When we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.


747. “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”


748. There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it. - Mickey Hart


749. “If I cannot fly, let me sing.” ― Stephen Sondheim


750. Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. - Plato


751. My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. – Martin Luther


752. "Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.” – George Eliot


753. "The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.” — Duke Ellington


754. Subscribe to Everyday Power!


755. “Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician’s curse.” ― Patrick Rothfuss


756. The best music… is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. – Bruce Springsteen


757. Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances


758. "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”


759. “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” ― Plato


760. “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” ― Arthur O’Shaughnessy


761. “Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” – Pablo Casals


762. "Even if you can’t sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.” — Rebbe Nachman


763. One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. – Bob Marley


764. Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. – Elton John


765. "Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.”


766. If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC.


767. "Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.” — Nina Simone


768. "The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.” — H. Auden


769. "There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.” – Frank Zappa


770. How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?


771. For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.


772. "Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.” – Keith Richards


773. Music isn’t just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It’s a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it’s joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven.


774. Words on The Power of Music


775. “Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul’s moods.” – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky


776. Thou canst not then be false to any man.”


777. "Music is a total constant. That’s why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.”


778. “Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.”― Oscar Wilde


779. "I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.” — Criss Jami


780. "Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” ― Confucius


781. “Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.” ― Percy Bysshe Shelley


782. "Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.” – Billie Joe Armstrong


783. “Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.” – Dimebag Darrell


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


785. "Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.” – Leigh Hunt


786. “Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.”


787. "Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.” ― Ezra Taft Benson


788. "Even if you can’t sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.” – Rebbe Nachman


789. Music is the best, and cheapest, mind-altering drug in the world. - Kamand Kojouri


790. "Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!” ― Joss Stirling


791. "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” —Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays


792. "If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.” ― Anna Akhmatova


793. “When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest of times, and to the latest.” – Henry David Thoreau


794. Music has real health benefits. It boosts dopamine, lowers cortisol and it makes us feel great. Your brain is better on music. – Alex Doman


795. Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song


796. He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you. - Hannah Harrington


797. Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. – Sarah Dessen


798. "I’ve always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.” — Kenny Rogers


799. As long as we live, there is never enough singing


800. "Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.” — Steve Maraboli


801. "I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.” — Criss Jami, Killisophy


802. The appetite may sicken, and so die.”


803. “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”


804. “It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”


805. "I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.” – Sarah McLachlan


806. “All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.” ― Frank Zappa


807. "The only truth is music.”


808. Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.


809. "Once again, she was free. Once again, she found peace. It was music that freed her soul from the dungeon of her mind.” ― Wiss Auguste, The Illusions of Hope


810. “The only truth is music.” ― Jack Kerouac


811. I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. - B. B. King


812. "Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.” – Ray Charles


813. "Some people have lives; some people have music.” — John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson


814. “Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does-humans are a musical species.”


815. "The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.” – H. Auden


816. “This above all: to thine own self be true,


817. “You can cage the singer but not the song.” – Harry Belafonte


818. “Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.” – Maya Angelou


819. "If in the afterlife there is no music, we will have to import it.” ― Domenico Cieri


820. "Those who wish to sing always find a song.” — Unknown


821. Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. – Robert Green Ingersoll


822. "When you're happy, you enjoy the music but when you're sad, you understand the lyrics.” ― Frank Ocean


823. "In music the passions enjoy themselves.”― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


824. “Without music, life would be a mistake” ― Friedrich Nietzsche


825. Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,


826. "If I cannot fly, let me sing.” ― Stephen Sondheim


827. “Music can change the world because it can change people.” ― Bono


828. “Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.” ― Patrick Rothfuss


829. “Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.” ― Maria Augusta von Trapp


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


831. “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” ― Leonard Bernstein


832. Songs won’t save the planet, but neither will books or speeches


833. Hans Christian Andersen


834. When words fail music speaks. – Irena Huang


835. “There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”


836. “Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.” ― Hans Christian Andersen


837. “Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.” ― Pat Conroy


838. “Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe.” ― Douglas Adams


839. John Paul Friedrich Richter


840. "The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.”


841. “If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.” ― Anna Akhmatova


842. "Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?”― Goldie Hawn


843. "Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.” ― Kahlil Gibran


844. Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. - Elton John


845. “The song of rejoicing softens hard hearts. It makes tears of godly sorrow flow from them. Singing summons the Holy Spirit. Happy praises offered in simplicity and love lead the faithful to complete harmony, without discord. Don’t stop singing.” – Hildegard von Bingen


846. “Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.” ― Frank Zappa


847. “Music — what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!” – Maria August von Trapp


848. “If music be the food of love, play on,


849. "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


850. “The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.” – Erik Satie


851. “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”


852. “People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.” – Taylor Swift


853. “A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” ― Leopold Stokowski


854. "Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.” — Jason Mraz


855. The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God. – Martin Luther


856. Music should be your escape.


857. “Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.” ― Alphonse de Lamartine


858. “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”


859. The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God. - Martin Luther


860. “A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.” ― Colbie Caillat


861. “The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.” – Duke Ellington


862. If Music is a Place — then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.


863. Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.


864. "Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”


865. "Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson


866. "Music is healing. Music holds things together.” ― Prince


867. People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It’s like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.


868. Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. – Confucius


869. I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it


870. "Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all.” — Josh Homme


871. Peopled at once.” ― Robert Browning


872. The positive effect music has in our lives is understated. It can influence mind-state and motivate us to reach for the stars. - Independent Zen


873. I’ve always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.


874. "Where words fail, music speaks.” – Hans Christian Andersen


875. The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.


876. The positive effect music has in our lives is understated. It can influence mind-state and motivate us to reach for the stars. – Independent Zen


877. Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa – Who knows most, knows least.


878. “Where words fail, music speaks.” ― Hans Christian Andersen


879. “To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the words make.” ― Truman Capote


880. "Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.” ― Benjamin Disraeli


881. "Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.” ― Johnny Depp


882. Without music, life would be a blank to me.


883. People haven’t always been there for me but music always has. – Taylor Swift


884. is equal to the love you make.”


885. “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”


886. “Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.” ― Lauren Oliver


887. "Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.”


888. Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. - George Eliot


889. “If Music is a Place — then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.” ― Vera Nazarian


890. "Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.” — Ray Charles


891. “And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.”


892. "Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” ― Confucious


893. “Music… will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer


894. Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. – Sergei Rachmaninov


895. "Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.” – Paul Simon


896. "People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It’s like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.” — Michael Jackson


897. “Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.”


898. "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.” ― Frank Zappa


899. “I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.” – Criss Jami


900. "Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.” ― Alex Gaskarth

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