Music Quotes

I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.

Albert Einstein

To sing is to pray twice.

St Augustine

Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

Plato

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

Maya Angelou

Where words fail, music speaks.

Hans Christian Andersen

When words leave off, music begins.

Heinrich Heine

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

Aldous Huxley

Music is the poetry of the air.

Jean Paul Richter

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

Victor Hugo

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

Confucius

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music.

Albert Einstein

I call architecture frozen music.

Goethe

Music can change the world.

Beethoven

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

Chinese Proverb

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

George Eliot

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

Plato

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

Mozart

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

Leopold Stokowski

Music is an outburst of the soul.

Frederick Delius

Music is the colour of sound.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Martin Luther

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

Marcel Marceau

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Robert Browning

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

Guy de Maupassant

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

Bryce Anderson

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

Bach

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

Chopin

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

Lauren Myracle

Melody is, and ever will be, the very flower of music.

August W Ambros

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

I see my life in terms of music.

Albert Einstein

Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

He who sings frightens away his ills.

Cervantes

You can cage the singer but not the song.

Harry Belafonte

Every life has a soundtrack.

Jodi Picoult

Where words leave off, music begins.

Heinrich Heine

Music is what life sounds like.

Eric Olson

I think that music has an endless life.

Anne Dudley

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Maria Augusta von Trapp