Yet More Music Sayings And Quotes

by allinspiration.com

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

“Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.”
– A. J. McLean 

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”
– Abraham Maslow 

“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 

“I don’t make music for eyes. I make music for ears.”
– Adele 

“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 

“Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.”
– Albert Camus 

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.”
– Albert Einstein 

“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 

“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 

“A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.’”
– Barack Obama 

“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 

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

“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.”
– Bill Cosby 

“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 

“You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.”
– Bob Dylan

“This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.”
– Bob Dylan 

“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.”
– Bob Dylan 

“Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.”
– Bob Dylan 

“I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.”
– Bob Dylan 

“Folk music is a bunch of fat people.”
– Bob Dylan 

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

“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.”
– Bob Marley 

“My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.”
– Bob Marley 

“Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock ‘n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there’s always a new generation with new music.”
– Bobby Vinton 

“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 

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

“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 

“I’ve never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that’s why I go on doing it – I like to see everybody smile.”
– Buddy Guy 

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