Music Quotes
96 quotations about Music
Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
Good music is very close to primitive language.
Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.
The high note is not the only thing.
Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Music is only love looking for words.
Mozart is sweet sunshine.
You are the music while the music lasts.
Music causes us to think eloquently.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.
I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.
Country music is three chords and the truth.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
I was a veteran before I was a teenager.
Authors on Music
Joseph Addison
Louis Armstrong
W. H. Auden
Berthold Auerbach
Lauren Bacall
Sir Thomas Beecham
Sir Max Beerbohm
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Josh Billings
Christian Nevell Bovee
James Brown
Thomas Carlyle
Miguel De Cervantes
E. M. Cioran
William Congreve
Pat Conroy
Alistair Cooke
Noel Coward
Miles Davis
Denis Diderot