More Music Quotations And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is another collation of music quotations and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.”
– Aaron Carter

“I asked my daughter when she was 16, What’s the buzz on the street with the kids? She’s going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren’t into Kiss. But they’ve all been told that it’s the greatest show on Earth.”
– Ace Frehley

“There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.”
– Aimee Mann

“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

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

“Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter — to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.”
– Albert Schweitzer

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

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

“The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly… music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.”
– Andres Segovia

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.”
– Arhtur O’Shanessey

“Music is what feelings sound like.”
– Author Unknown

“Play the music, not the instrument.”
– Author Unknown

“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

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”
– Benjamin Britten

“Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

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

“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

“Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.”
– Billy Sheehan

“All music is beautiful.”
– Billy Strayhorn

“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”
– Billy Wilder

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

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

“It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.”
– Bruce Beresford

“But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.”
– Bryan Ferry

“Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.”
– Bryan Ferry

“You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?”
– Bryan Ferry

“Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.”
– Buddy Holly

“He who sings scares away his woes.”
– Cervantes

“Music’s not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.”
– Charlie Byrd

“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.”
– Charlie Parker

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

“Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.”
– Christian Nestell Bovee

“I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.”
– Dizzy Gillespie

“If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.”
– Doménico Cieri Estrada

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

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