Music Quotes

96 quotations about Music
Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
Miles Davis · Music
Good music is very close to primitive language.
Denis Diderot · Music
Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.
Howard Dietz · Music
The high note is not the only thing.
Placido Domingo · Music
Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
James Duffecy · Music
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Lawrence Durrell · Music
Music is only love looking for words.
Lawrence Durrell · Music
Mozart is sweet sunshine.
Antonin Dvorak · Music
You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot · Music
Music causes us to think eloquently.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Music
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
John Erskine · Music
I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
Aretha Franklin · Music
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
Edward Gardner · Music
Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
Billy Gibbons · Music
A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
Henry Giles · Music
You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.
Tipper Gore · Music
I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.
Ulysses S. Grant · Music
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
Benny Green · Music
Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.
Buddy Holly · Music
Country music is three chords and the truth.
Harlan Howard · Music
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Elbert Hubbard · Music
Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
Victor Hugo · Music
Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.
James G. Huneker · Music
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley · Music
I was a veteran before I was a teenager.
Michael Jackson · Music

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