Music Quotes

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.

I am convinced that Beethoven had a lower I.Q. than a bank director, but I am willing to exchange all bank directors for the one Beethoven.

We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves.

As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.

There is something very wonderful in music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words do; it speaks straight to our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls. Music soothes us, stirs us up; it puts noble feelings in us; […]

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

Latin and soul music have been the traditional musical forms in Spanish Harlem; Latin music because it represents our own unique life-force, and soul because for better or worse our destinies are inextricably tied to that of the black nation insofar as we live, work, and die with it. In every slum in New York […]